Joseph: Founder naivety is essential for taking massive entrepreneurial risks
Sindhu Joseph · AI in Wealth Management: Scaling Financial Advisory & Democratizing Access · Aug 11, 2025 · at 37:56
Sindhu Joseph, CEO and co-founder of CogniCore, reflects on how ignorance of startup failure rates enables entrepreneurs to take risks that overly detail-oriented experts would avoid.
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“One of the, you know characteristics of a founder I guess is also the naivety, like, you know, not knowing enough to believe in your stupid visions of the future. And you know, if you knew enough, like, and if you knew every detail of what would happen, you probably wouldn't have, you know, jumped into that risk-taking. So I think every risk-taker is somewhere between that naive not knowing enough, and stays at a at a higher level than, you know, someone who's a detail-oriented engineer who knows every single, you know, details about that, so they will never take that risk.”
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