Coburn: Unretirement Is Rising Because Traditional Retirement Fails Expectations
Derek Coburn · Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene... · Jun 3, 2025 · at 27:26
Derek Coburn, author of 'Let's Retire Retirement', speaks on Startups For the Rest of Us with Rob Walling about why retirees return to work.
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“The reason why the unretirement movement is, is as big as it is, is because people were promised to feel a certain way once they got to retirement. They were promised a certain outcome, the arrival fallacy, if you will, They were promised something. If they did things a certain way, they would feel a certain way, and they're not feeling that way.”
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