Great questions @bigbull, thank you for asking 
My answer to your question is presented below in two parts; first is the one-line TLDR accompanied by four summarized points. The second part is long winded, more thorough version for those who relish in details.
The TLDR
I’ve submitted my name for the Special Council role instead of remaining an outsourced contractor, because my passion towards ApeCoin DAO has grown substantially while working with this community throughout this year, including the experience of working with current SC on AIP-267. I believe this is the most well-rounded decision for my personal life, my professional career, and for my passion towards the DAO ecosystem’s impact on humanity’s future throughout the next century.
The Long Answer
In order to more holistically answer this question, I’d like to share how it came to be that I’m in this ecosystem at all. From this place of fundamental clarity, the answer as to why I’m running for Special Council while being the CEO of an up-and-coming startup becomes, imho, mostly self-evident.
I discovered the ideologic principles of decentralization during the beginning of 2017 when a friend introduced me to the Bitcoin. Before buying a single Satoshi, I spent months reading, researching, reflecting, and speaking with the Bitcoiner communities here in Canada where I reside. After I obtained the level of clarity required to make a sound decision, I opted to start converting my Fiat into Satoshis. I did this because I believe the world needs a better money system for commerce, less red tape, more spending transparency from our global politicians, and an objective value on our assets which cannot be destroyed by the inflation triggered by the majority of our current political leaders. In other words; money printer went brrrr for too long, and I felt inspired to support a solution.
While converting Fiat into Satoshis, I also opted to convert my residential garage into a mostly automated mining farm with enhanced, 2-stage soundproofing and state-of-the-art ventilation. This is an important part of the journey for anyone in this ecosystem to undertake and it was a great joy to have done so.
My interest in Bitcoin ultimately led to discovering the broader Blockchain/Web3 ecosystem such as; the real world applications of DeFi, the beautiful solutions towards online gaming, a love of memes (obviously) which is where I met @thebossdragon, and ultimately to discovering the ideological principles of a DAO.
DAOs presented a solution to me at a global level to the problems we face regarding our organizational structures, whether in a corporation, a charity, a social club, or a country. For anyone not familiar with the term Network State, I highly encourage you to, at the very least, skim through this book called The Network State, and then to engage with me in further discussion on the topic in another thread. Much to discuss here throughout the next decade and beyond.
My journey with DAOs began by contributing to CityDAO. I started by producing 49 episodes of their DAO podcast, presenting testimony to the Wyoming Senate regarding their infamous DAO Bill-38, then competing (and winning) at the ETH Denver hackathon earlier this year, which, along with monetary support by CityDAO, triggered the co-founding of NodeBlocks, where I am currently the CEO, and where @thebossdragon is the CTO.
Shortly thereafter, I discovered the ApeCoin community and have dove-in all the way ever since.
I dove in like this because the Ape community is arguably one of the largest, strongest, most expansive and inclusive community across this whole ecosystem, and as such holds the potential to alter human history for the better throughout the next century.
It’s the natural, organic evolution of my involvement within this ecosystem to be in this place, right here right now, running for Special Counsel, within this community I’ve grown to love, called the ApeCoin DAO.
Should I be honored with the community confidence to be elected into the Special Council position within ApeCoin DAO, my Co-Founding CTO @thebossdragon will be taking over many of the CEO responsibilities at NodeBlocks. Furthermore, should an irresolvable conflict arise, I would relinquish my position at NodeBlocks entirely.
One of the great many qualities about my partnership with @thebossdragon is that in addition to being a powerful CTO and a good hearted person, he’s also a great leader and a successful Entrepreneur, having exited his last venture to Battery Ventures after building it to 20million users. Should such an occasion arise where NodeBlocks were to on-board a new CEO, I would remain on the board of directors in an advisory capacity, as I believe this entire ecosystem benefits enormously from the enhanced DAO infrastructure @thebossdragon has been dedicated to developing throughout the entirety of this 2023 year.