Puri: Daily camaraderie and the journey motivate entrepreneurs more than financial figures
Shaan Puri · Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi · Jun 25, 2025 · at 4:48
Shaan Puri compares entrepreneurship to professional sports, arguing that founders derive more joy from the process and team building than the final financial outcome.
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“The team bus rides, the locker room, the it's all of the like camaraderie stuff that happens along the way. It's like the kind of the buildup is the stuff that they miss the most. And I think there's that for entrepreneurship too. I think there's that, that's a huge amount of the fun of it. And it's what you get excited about. You need the number to sort of justify it. The number gives you some air cover for why you're acting like a little kid. You're so excited about something. The numbers help.”
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