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Great talk. Favorite quote so far: "The thing that we've noticed is that the longer you spend at a big company, the worse of an entrepreneur you are."
by sdpurtill 14y ago
Great talk. Favorite quote so far: "The thing that we've noticed is that the longer you spend at a big company, the worse of an entrepreneur you are."
- rmATinnovafy 14y agoQuite profound. Companies seem to thrive on sould crunching. My own experience leads me to believe so. But would the inverse also hold true? Is unemployment a fuel to entrepreneurship? The longer you are unemployed or under employed leads to one just going for it?
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- soup10 14y agoI'd imagine that the number of successful entrepreneurs that couldn't find employment if they wanted to is pretty low. Personally, and from what I've seen, entrepreneurs and self-employed people just really really don't like working for 'the Man'. Even if 'the Man' is a great employer.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoOpposite of big company != unemployed||underemployed. Could be working for startups, starting a startup, grad/school, independent contracting/freelancing, etc.
- aswanson 14y agoYeah, I think staying at a big company is a proxy for a few things that can work against entrepreneurship: risk aversion, used to "playing a role", divorce of your daily thinking from the marketplace... It's like at BigCo you become a specialized, mature cell. Startups require stem cells, ready to adapt into whatever the market requires.
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