My motivation is driven by two things.

The first one is Technology.
At first, setting up a RaspberryPi to play SuperNes games was pretty cool, but I wanted it to do more than that.
Then, I found its true purpose when IOHK launched the ITN. That’s when I started to dig more on how to configure this pocket-card size computer in order for him to do huge things. For it to be a node of the blockchain, and even build it by creating blocks was an amazing experience.
And I’m really excited to participate actively to this adventure that is clearly designing the future of our society. I was too young to be part of the internet revolution, I’m not going to miss this one.

The second one is about Investment.
Of course, I’m speaking about money investment like I did by buying the servers to host the relays and block-producer, VPS that act as independant firewall for each server, SSDs, etc… and hoping to be rewarded.
But I mainly refer to time investment. I love spending time learning, understanding, implementing, debugging and tweaking this stuff to get the best of it. Rest assured that I don’t do it at the expense of security. As per my professional background and regarding my personnal investment in this matter, I simply can’t afford to lose everything because I would have not put enough time educating myself on how to build this stakepool properly.