Not everyone can be a founder #entrepreneur #startups #technology
00:00:00.000 | Whenever people say I'm thinking about starting a company, my
00:00:02.400 | first response is no, don't you have to be told over and over
00:00:05.480 | again to not start a company to test if they actually have the
00:00:08.720 | resilience and grit necessary just to take the first step of
00:00:10.960 | starting the company. This notion that everyone should be
00:00:13.200 | encouraged to start a company and entrepreneurism is a career
00:00:15.920 | choice, I think is a false notion. I think that most people
00:00:19.000 | are not psychologically equipped for being successful in
00:00:21.560 | entrepreneurship, you have to be comfortable with failure, you
00:00:24.080 | have to be comfortable with expectations not being met.
00:00:26.520 | There's a reason a lot of people that have had success in their
00:00:28.840 | career don't end up being great entrepreneurs. Because as soon
00:00:32.120 | as you're faced with failure for the first time, it doesn't
00:00:35.440 | pattern match to what's happened to you historically, you have to
00:00:38.240 | really find ways to sacrifice. I think it's a requisite to