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>as many don't see entrepreneurship with good eyes in Brazil. How do they think the companies that offer salaried work started?

sergiomattei 5y ago
I sense snark in this comment, but I'll answer anyways. In Latin America, our culture is extremely conservative about taking risks. We're expected to get a job, settle down, live a nice life. Generally entrepreneurship is frowned upon by our families and friends.
- rorykoehler 5y ago
  What does society think of successful entrepreneurs?
  - henvic 5y ago
    There's a huge lack of admiration for entrepreneurs. In special, for the successful ones. Some people just hate them.
    - sergiomattei 5y ago
      I wouldn't say there isn't admiration, at least where I grew up. It's just a general lack of role models. It's not often massive, inspiring companies emerge from Latin American countries. Entrepreneurship is really hard in LatAm: bureaucracy, lack of venture capital, grounded business thinking (investors down here are likelier to invest in more grounded, less technological companies over bigger moonshots). We just have no frame of reference to dream big. Add to that the fact that most LatAm countries are exceedingly poor, there isn't much room to take the kind of financial risk entrepreneurship entails. There is hope: things are changing. Governments are investing in startup communities and the last decade brought us the first Latino tech unicorns. But we're a long way to go still. TLDR: LatAm is generally poor, risk-averse due to culture and has problems generating the feel-good success stories first-world countries mass produce.
henvic 5y ago
Here is the issue: pursuing a - so called - stable career as a public servant is, unfortunately i what many consider success.go to a coffeshop and you'll hear many discussing about the admission process, what friends and relatives are trying, salaries for all sorts of random positions, and so on. Barely anyone will be talking about opening a company. Even less if we aren't talking about tech related ones.
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sergiomattei 5y ago

I sense snark in this comment, but I'll answer anyways. In Latin America, our culture is extremely conservative about taking risks. We're expected to get a job, settle down, live a nice life. Generally entrepreneurship is frowned upon by our families and friends.

rorykoehler 5y ago
What does society think of successful entrepreneurs?
- henvic 5y ago
  There's a huge lack of admiration for entrepreneurs. In special, for the successful ones. Some people just hate them.
  - sergiomattei 5y ago
    I wouldn't say there isn't admiration, at least where I grew up. It's just a general lack of role models. It's not often massive, inspiring companies emerge from Latin American countries. Entrepreneurship is really hard in LatAm: bureaucracy, lack of venture capital, grounded business thinking (investors down here are likelier to invest in more grounded, less technological companies over bigger moonshots). We just have no frame of reference to dream big. Add to that the fact that most LatAm countries are exceedingly poor, there isn't much room to take the kind of financial risk entrepreneurship entails. There is hope: things are changing. Governments are investing in startup communities and the last decade brought us the first Latino tech unicorns. But we're a long way to go still. TLDR: LatAm is generally poor, risk-averse due to culture and has problems generating the feel-good success stories first-world countries mass produce.

henvic 5y ago

Here is the issue: pursuing a - so called - stable career as a public servant is, unfortunately i what many consider success.go to a coffeshop and you'll hear many discussing about the admission process, what friends and relatives are trying, salaries for all sorts of random positions, and so on. Barely anyone will be talking about opening a company. Even less if we aren't talking about tech related ones.

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