entrepreneur
also referred to as: entrepreneurs
40 statements across 35 episodes · 13 bullish · 8 bearish · 32 people on the record · first statement Sep 26, 2016 by Cathy Hughes · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Sep 26, 2016 negative
Founders should avoid discussing early business struggles with close loved ones
“When you're starting off in business, you have to be so very careful about who You discuss your hard times with, because those who love you and care for you the most, like your mother, like your best friend, they'll give you the worst damn advice in the world.”
Sep 26, 2016 negative
Sep 26, 2016
Mar 6, 2017 positive
Mei Xu: Immigrants share the same risk-taking traits as entrepreneurs
“I think immigrants are self-selected group. They are self-selected group that is very big on taking risks. In some ways they have the same traits as entrepreneurs already. Instead of taking what's easy, What's already familiar, they choose the unfamiliar, the …”
Aug 14, 2017
Aug 14, 2017
Cathy Hughes warns founders that loved ones give the worst business advice.
“When you're starting off in business, you have to be so very careful about who You discuss your hard times with, because those who love you and care for you the most, like your mother, like your best friend, they'll give you the worst damn advice in the world.”
Dec 18, 2017 positive
Von Tobel: Entrepreneurs Who Survive Downturns Can Thrive Anywhere
“If you can do it in this environment, you can do it anytime. Like, they were like, the entrepreneurs who survived through this, it's like a gauntlet, right? It's like, literally, it's like multiple, like, jumping through knives and hoops, and if you can get th…”
Dec 25, 2017 positive
Chouinard advises entrepreneurs to invent new categories rather than fight incumbents
“If you want to be successful in business, you don't go up against Coca-Cola and You know, these big companies there, they'll kill you. You just do it differently. You figure out something that no one else has thought about, and you do it a totally different wa…”
Jan 15, 2018 positive
Jan 22, 2018 positive
Founders must understand brain psychology to avoid reacting emotionally
“One of the tools that they should have is the understanding of how the human brain works, right? Because if you can understand how your brain is fooling you, when you might be reacting to something rather than making a sound decision, or When you might be feel…”
Apr 2, 2018 neutral
Lake: Startup founders are just unqualified, normal people with ideas
“I probably met over a hundred entrepreneurs in the time that I was there. And the most important learning, actually, was that all of these people were just, like, super unqualified, normal people with lots of ideas, just like I was.”
Jun 4, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 neutral
Oct 8, 2018 positive
Jun 17, 2019 positive
Xu: Immigrants inherently share key entrepreneurial traits like risk tolerance
“I think immigrants are self-selected group. They are self-selected group that is very big on taking risks. In some ways, they have the same traits as entrepreneurs already. Instead of taking what's easy, what's already familiar, They choose the unfamiliar, the…”
Aug 5, 2019 positive
Lütke: Making your first sale is what defines an entrepreneur
“I think that's what makes you an entrepreneur. Like the first time you sell something, or first time someone hires you for when the phone rings or something like this. Because until then, you're just someone who builds something, which is already great.”
Dec 12, 2019
Carter: Childhood poverty fundamentally changes an entrepreneur's relationship to risk
“I'll talk to some of my friends who, you know, are successful entrepreneurs or business owners and, But grew up, you know, middle class or whatever, right? So, it's a different set of worries when it comes to running a business, or being an entrepreneur, or ev…”
May 9, 2020 neutral
Holmes: Employees only need clarity when they have motivation and competency
“If I can teach any entrepreneurs about their people, there's three things they want to know. They want to know what's my job. How does it impact the company? And minor, how do I get paid? Interestingly, if you go back to Dan Pink, you know, on what motivates p…”
Jun 11, 2020 negative
Kevin Hart: Silence on social injustice signals contentment with the status quo
“Being silent is, it's catastrophic. Your silence basically says that you're not aware and you don't care. And that means that you're okay and you're content with the way that things are. And if you are, it's a problem.”
Jun 13, 2020 neutral
Hutchinson: Black women entrepreneurs grow quickly but hit growth ceilings
“Some of the fastest growing groups of entrepreneurs are Black, like Black women, a fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, but we also, our businesses tend to be smaller, We tend to hit a ceiling fairly quickly. We're not necessarily able to stay over the long…”
Jun 15, 2020 positive
Oct 12, 2020 positive
Dec 7, 2020 positive
Guy Raz: Mormon missions prepare founders for relentless entrepreneurial rejection
“Young Mormons who go on missions, I think, are very well prepared to become entrepreneurs, because you're knocking on a thousand doors a week, and 900 of them are just, like, slamming in your face, and you still have to be polite, right?”
Dec 23, 2020 neutral
Aarons-Mele warns founders to practice vulnerability without broadcasting personal messes
“Oversharing in the social media age is a temptation that a lot of entrepreneurs might feel, actually, because a lot of our favorite entrepreneurs are Do seem to be able to share a lot, right, when they get on Guy's show, but they've already made their billion …”
Dec 23, 2020 positive
Aarons-Mele notes every successful entrepreneur experiences severe, nauseating pitch nervousness
“Don't ever think that the fact that you get nervous Before you go talk to people and you want to throw up and you want to hide in the bathroom means that you can't be a successful entrepreneur because every successful entrepreneur feels that way.”
Feb 22, 2021 neutral
Jun 21, 2021 negative
Aug 12, 2021
Nov 1, 2021
Apr 14, 2022 neutral
Chaudry: Content Creators Face The Same Failure Rates As Traditional Startups
“I think a lot of people can make money right now in the creator economy, but to make a career, I think is extremely challenging. And I think it's just like any other entrepreneurial venture. And I think it's really important to recognize that the term creators…”
Jun 20, 2022
Levchin: Entrepreneurs realize their true nature when following others' rules
“For an entrepreneur, you get reminded you're an entrepreneur when you're not trying to run a company the most. You start realizing that sort of rules are written and you kind of have to follow them because you're in, in someone else's backyard.”
Sep 8, 2022 neutral
Sep 8, 2022 negative
Shahid: The West celebrates marginalized girls without letting them lead organizations
“When you hear stories of, you know, brown girls who are subjected to horrible things, we celebrate them in the West, we put them on covers on the West, but we don't allow them to lead their own organizations. We don't allow them to be entrepreneurs.”
Jun 12, 2025 negative
Perry Chen: Many founders work years in misery just to avoid failing
“I think so many entrepreneurs just drive themselves to not fail their employees, not fail their investors, not fail, you know, success, and will add years and years and years onto businesses that they're running, 70, eighties hours a week that they really wish…”
Feb 9, 2026 negative
Feb 16, 2026
Feb 23, 2026 negative
Venture capital pitches are adversarial games where entrepreneurs routinely lie
“If you've ever been a VC pitch, they're really weird things, because they're basically, the VCs are up there playing defense. They're like goalies. And the entrepreneurs, the people who are pitching are just lying to them.”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Lopez: Most aspiring founders wait far too long to start companies
“Most people take too long to make the leap for a number of reasons. It's really difficult to go from zero to one. But it, the journey is so rewarding, and once you've got to the conviction that you want to come up with an idea, And turn it into a product, it's…”
Apr 27, 2026
Ian Murray: Giving entrepreneurs capital ensures they spend rather than produce
“One, if you give an entrepreneur money, they're going to spend it. There's no doubt if somebody gives a bunch of money, we'd find a way to spend it. But when you don't give them any, and they're hungry, you figure out a way to make it.”
Jun 15, 2026
Clark: Brand-building commitment is hard to teach founders straight out of college
“Commitment to the time it takes to build a brand and to build success is something that's hard to teach if that, if it's their first job out of college, you know, instead of having the experience that you can't really pass on to them.”