Puri: Viewing business as a sport explains why wealthy founders keep working
Shaan Puri · Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi · Jun 25, 2025 · at 6:56
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr discuss the psychology of entrepreneurs who keep launching companies despite having accumulated tens of millions of dollars.
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“If you think about business not as a mechanism to make money, but as a sport you play, then it's like, oh, of course, just because you're great at tennis and you won a tournament doesn't mean you'll stop playing tennis. Why would you do that? That's your sport. You love to play the sport. You'll basically play the sport until your body breaks down and doesn't let you play the sport anymore.”
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