Pioneers are willing to take risks, sometimes even with their lives and many with their reputations. Followers are more risk averse, they prefer to follow a tr

Pioneers are willing to take risks, sometimes even with their lives and many with their reputations. Followers are more risk averse, they prefer to follow a trail that was blazed before them. I think the distinction is true in the original sense of the people who pushed ahead into the Wild West as well as for less physically demanding and risky adventures, like hacking into corporate computer systems.