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The Irony of Being an Entrepreneur
The whole idea of being an entrepreneur in the first place is because it sounds cool. But then you get lots of people entering who shouldn't be entering, and it's basically a kind of dilettons. I don't want to cast too negative a light on it - but at the same time, I do feel quite negative about the entire phenomenon. And so there's something about entrepreneurship that makes this problem perhaps more acute than it is elsewhere. Entrepreneurships are very uncommon to succeed, right? Failure in scare quotes is sort of the modal outcome,. So that actually creates a situation where you just have that's a base sort of a baseline condition, but it's also an excuse