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It's because if you find something that works and that can give you the money and freedom that I assume entrepreneurs want, then why take the move into a 'close
by jeb 16y ago
It's because if you find something that works and that can give you the money and freedom that I assume entrepreneurs want, then why take the move into a 'closed community'? What he's doing is not entrepreneurship as I imagine it - what he is doing feels more like trying to insert himself into a social group of pseudo-entreprenuers.
These are the people who are more interested in their standing within a certain community, than in actually starting multiple businesses.
I could mention names that fit this template, because there are quite a lot. What they are doing is not about the money, it's about the fame and the social ranking they hope to acquire. That's why it disappoints me to see this - because in my opinion, businessmen should be aggressive money chasers and should not care what their peers think about them.
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- sprout 16y agoPersonally, I find both the preoccupation with money and status a little foreign. Me, I just want to do things that make people happy, that make their lives easier. If I could do that and still have some free time, and still have some people around who like to be around me, and I like to be around (though not people who think I'm some sort of superhuman because of my accomplishments) that would be ideal for me.
- vlad 16y agoYou're right. Payment processors (including the App Store) should have an option to cap the amount of income a developer can earn in a month, just in case an app actually takes off (after a year of hard full-time work on it), to prevent making developers and customers who hear about it jealous. Everybody you read about who made X dollars, planned to do so, right? It was very easy and certain, right?
- sprout 16y agoWhat? I'm just saying I don't like the spotlight, and beyond $60000/year I'd be inclined to give most of my money away.
- vlad 16y agoIf that's how you describe someone who quit a co-op (internship) in order to launch a few of his own apps that pay his rent and allow him to keep working on his dream, I'm genuinely curious (and I mean no disrespect when I ask), how would you describe your own self?
- ashearer 16y agoPast a certain comfortable dollar amount, who's to say that greater fame and social standing are necessarily sillier than more money? It wasn't even clear that's what he was after from the article. He came across as a bona fide entrepreneur who was executing successfully and wanted to take it to the next level. SF looked to him like the best place to do it. I'm not sure whether you're arguing that he's always been a pseudo-entrepreneur, or that he remains the real deal but miscalculated in moving to an area rife with fakers, or that he became a faker by looking for a deal or acquisition offer when he should have kept doing his own thing, or whether you're trying to point out the uselessness of a certain personality type, of which he happens to be a poor example.