Entrepreneurs Quit Their Day Jobs to Start a Company

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If you look at entrepreneurs the successful ones are quite risk averse. They're cautious and they're constantly forming backup plans. I can so relate to this because I quit a job and tried to start a company and it was not successful at all. We're better off testing and doing and having the fall backlands like you talk about.

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