entrepreneurship

“There's a tremendous amount of knowledge required to be a successful entrepreneur. It is truly a mentorship sport. And if you don't have the right advisors around you, the right people to support you can fail for things that are very avoidable.”

“Every single one of them that gets kind of attracted to going to work for an NGO comes at the opportunity cost of not becoming an entrepreneur. And actually, small business and entrepreneurship is what grows an economy. That's what contributes to GDP. That's w…”

“No, everyone should not be an entrepreneur. And I think sometimes our message gets confused with that idea which is something we want to push back against very hard. So we absolutely do not believe that everyone should be an entrepreneur. What we actually beli…”

“If you're an entrepreneur. It's just innate. Like, it's really clear to me. Like, I can tell that you're a purebred entrepreneur from, like, across the ocean and having never talked to you on the phone. Like, it's just, like, super clear. You know, when you ha…”

“Is that it is the act of creation, and I think that the act of creation, that is to say making something from nothing or something from very, very little, is as close as we'll really get to doing the work of God.”

“Within the world of business, it seems like there are a lot of areas that are somewhat zero sum and entrepreneurship and founding companies is kind of at the opposite end of that spectrum, where it is the least zero sum thing imaginable, meaning you have a ver…”

“It's obviously easier than being an entrepreneur, but I can do it from anywhere. I'm flexible about my hours. I can work, you know, sometimes I work until one AM, sometimes I work until three PM and have a portfolio of companies to spread the stress across.”

“Having children fundamentally changes your perception of what you're working on and how far ahead you're looking.”

“Entrepreneurship, especially at the early age, is less about, you know, analytics and numerics, and it's really about understanding human beings, their incentives, their motivations, and what makes them great.”

“My view is that entrepreneurship itself is very chaotic and unpredictable and confusing, but entrepreneurship as a portfolio activity, you know, like what VCs do is totally manageable.”

“Most companies don't have entrepreneurship as a function, and they're in trouble.”

“Entrepreneurship is about betting on yourself, and anytime you start hedging that bet, I think you're lowering the probability of success”

“Entrepreneurship used to be perceived as a massive risk, and now I think for a certain segment of people, they see it as just another box you check, and if you happen to be really good at it, great, but it's just something you have to do the same way that you …”

“Realized that there was an incredible stigma around issues of mental health in our society broadly, but especially in the context of entrepreneurship. And that stigma that existed actually made things much, much worse for somebody who was Depressed, and that o…”

“I didn't realize, really because of my upbringing, that entrepreneurship was a process, not an epiphany, and it's something that I just never really had thought about or was exposed to.”

“The biggest mistake I see so many make is they are too broad in the content topic they target. Entrepreneurship is far too wide. Tech news. That is not going to do it. You have to be specific.”

“I think it does get easier, right? Because it's, I think it changed the nature of the problems change. It's like when people ask me about kids, you know, when you have a small kid, you worry about something relatively minuscule every single day, maybe every si…”

“I think 95% of people are way better off going and working for a company. Earning great money, building their skills over time, and then focusing on other areas of life that is not business and entrepreneurship.”

“And he instead convinced me that I shouldn't do that, that I should really, if I wanted to make a difference in the world, that I should become an entrepreneur.”

“I just think we're gonna go into the golden age of entrepreneurship. It's by far the most AI-safe job. It's by far the most AI-benefiting job.”