Taking a risk implies that you are going to be personally impacted if everything falls through. Peter Thiel is worth $2.1b and almost all VCs are investing ins

Taking a risk implies that you are going to be personally impacted if everything falls through. Peter Thiel is worth $2.1b and almost all VCs are investing institutional money. So I think it's ridiculous to even mention them in the same breath as founders who are typically working 70+ hour weeks, dealing with immense stress and are poorly paid for an idea that is statistically likely to fail.