entrepreneurship
9 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2022 by Julien Smith · across every show →
Everything said about entrepreneurship, oldest first
Jun 30, 2022 positive
Smith: Acknowledging startup challenges builds credibility and prevents founder anxiety
“Now what I do is, is I say, here's the things that are going well, here's the things we need to work on. And I think that, that, that, that understanding that there's still something to work on. First of all, it gives an impression to me that Of me that people…”
Dec 22, 2022 neutral
Huber: Entrepreneurial wealth typically takes 10 to 20 years to compound
“Very rarely do you have these people who the Evan Spiegel's who go from zero to billions of dollars in wealth on their first shot when they're 25 years old. The more likely story is You know, several businesses over 10 or 20 years learning a ton and just more …”
Jan 19, 2023 positive
Cole: Gaming background primes entrepreneurs for pain tolerance and strategy
“It's like the background in gaming clearly primes your brain for certain skills, for certain ways of thinking, for a certain threshold of pain, for strategy, for learning rules, then bending rules. You know, it's like video games prime all of that.”
Jun 15, 2023 positive
Shallard: Bootstrappers can build scalable products on just 20% of their time
“I think it's totally feasible to spend 20% of your time in your first year of entrepreneurship as a bootstrapper building the product that's going to one day liberate all the rest of your time, right? Like it can really be, you might spend 80% of your time jus…”
Jun 15, 2023 negative
Nov 9, 2023 positive
Pompliano: Entrepreneurs need financial security before optimizing for long-term impact
“If you look at many of the people who have been able to do this throughout the decades, usually you have to reach some degree of success and have some degree of security before you really have the ability to do that. You trade off short-term income and revenue…”
Apr 9, 2025 bullish
Apr 16, 2025
Huber: Competing in tech is like playing LeBron James for a billion
“I say like, do you want to compete against LeBron James or a fifth grade girl in basketball? The winner gets something amazing. Like you beat LeBron, you get a billion dollars. You beat the third grade girl, fifth grade girl, you get 30 grand a month. I I'd pl…”
Feb 18, 2026 neutral
Isenberg: AI Will Drive Layoffs Alongside a Golden Age of One-Person Businesses
“You know, unfortunately there are going to be more and more layoffs as AI helps with productivity. At the same time, I think there's going to be a renaissance, the golden age of entrepreneurship, and people creating assets, products like this, one person busin…”