entrepreneur
also referred to as: entrepreneurs
15 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2022 by Gergely Orosz · said 40 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Nov 17, 2022 positive
Orosz: Entrepreneurs must create artificial constraints to maintain productivity
“If you put in ways that you have to do certain things, you know, put in constraints for the things that you need to do, and then you're going to do that. Without that, when you're on your own, when you're an entrepreneur, I was a great, like, I think I was a r…”
Dec 8, 2022
Sep 17, 2023 negative
Lochhead: Competing for existing demand with incremental improvements causes startup failure
“And so this is the mistake that many, many entrepreneurs make. Is they, whether they realize it or not, what they're doing is incremental better. And they're fighting for market share, fighting for existing demand with something that's incrementally better. An…”
Sep 17, 2023 negative
Lochhead: Founders fail by using old language to describe new innovations
“A mistake that a lot of entrepreneurs make is they use old language to describe their new thing. And we can't use so much new language that nobody knows what the fuck we're talking about. So we have to meet the category where it is and bring them forward. But …”
Oct 12, 2023 neutral
Oct 12, 2023 neutral
Entrepreneur and Fast Company avoid negative hit pieces to protect audience trust
“Like entrepreneur, and I would say fast company are just sort of not in the business of running negative stories. And the reason is because it doesn't serve our audience. Like, you know, my audience is coming to me to learn things for their business. Tearing s…”
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Oct 12, 2023
Audiences find pure success uninteresting; they want to learn about problem-solving
“Success stories are not interesting. They're not interesting to anybody, right? It's not. Useful for you to just hear that someone else succeeded. What's useful is for you to hear how someone else faced challenges that you faced and got through them so that yo…”
Dec 17, 2023 positive
Fried: Bootstrapping forces founders to learn how to make money
“The value in bootstrapping is that it teaches entrepreneurs. It not even teaches, it forces them to have to figure out how to make money. And the more time under the curve they have making money and practicing making money, the better at it they're going to ge…”
Jan 25, 2024
Feb 23, 2025 positive
Dyslexia forces many into entrepreneurship because traditional jobs refuse to hire them
“There's a, there's an amazing amount of entrepreneurs who are dyslexic. And I attribute it back to the fact is it's because we couldn't get jobs. We just went to create our own thing. Cause we couldn't like, we had to figure out our own way to work.”
May 8, 2025
Colonna: Founders sabotage successful businesses to avoid unresolved childhood baggage
“If you continue to bypass sorting out your baggage, there's going to come a day where you're going to have to pay that price. It could be in your own depression. It could be in, I've seen this a thousand times, Lenny, entrepreneurs sabotaging their successful …”
Jul 3, 2025 positive
Wilkinson: Founders must adopt 'lazy leadership' and shed disliked tasks
“So I think a lot of people have this kind of Protestant work ethic. Where they think, well, I've got to be the person to do everything. And I think they really need to lean into what I call lazy leadership, which is how do I get away from the things I hate as …”
Jul 3, 2025 neutral
Apr 12, 2026 negative
Rabois: Legal training is largely inconsistent with being an entrepreneur
“But I think most things that lawyers learn are very Inconsistent with being entrepreneur. So when you're graded as a lawyer, you learn every exam in law school virtually is issue spotting. So you get credit for identify, there's like fact patterns, identify al…”