> To be fair though, I'm assuming a situation where you don't have kids, a house payment, etc. Exactly. "You" means different things. On average, even smart

> To be fair though, I'm assuming a situation where you don't have kids, a house payment, etc. Exactly. "You" means different things. On average, even smart people (maybe especially smart people) aren't cut out for this shit, and that's not to denigrate them. > Is it really wasted time though? Again, it depends. People in the startup world can feel so much pressure that they end up offing themselves, as we saw during the last downturn. Due to survival bias, we rarely hear about the failures, fractured families, ruined savings, etc. There are guys who kept trying over and over and never made it. They usually don't write books or blog articles about it. There are even more guys who started something, limped it along for five or ten years and then watched it peter out, and absorbed all the psychological punishment that entails. I started a reasonably successful company. I'd be really careful about who I recommended it to.