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"Swinging for the fences increases the odds of striking out."

Not a law. Good entrepreneurs are game changers and it's easier to just play a different game where there is not a high reward/high risk correlation rather than play this losing game that assumes that high reward must mean high risk.

In my opinion good entrepreneurs are not risk takers, they are risk managers. The best ones are money takers.



How do you explain Marc Andreessen's company laying off half its staff? Is he not a good entrepreneur?


I'm not qualified to judge his entrepreneurial abilities; my main point is to question the correlation between high reward and high risk and also to make sure risk is not glamorized. (The only reason you take a risk is that it is a necessary means to a greater benefit.)




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