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I honestly think "coming up" in drug-dealing or as a rap-star are analogous to running a successful startup. In both professions the system is trying to quell/

by EricDeb 14y ago

I honestly think "coming up" in drug-dealing or as a rap-star are analogous to running a successful startup. In both professions the system is trying to quell/control your rise to success and it takes an extraordinary amount of willpower/talent/luck to overcome it.

its_so_on 14y ago
Be that as it may, I don't want to succeed and have my friends and family think of me as a hustler - an $80k job as a programmer beats that. Being CEO is, and ought to be, far more respectable. We should be happy that it's as "easy" as it is for the guy who only has $500 to his name and invests it in drugs to sell, gets customers and builds his capital until he's balling. I have some "respect" for that business. We're lucky ours doesn't depend on being illegal, or even ripping anyone off - we should try to hold on to that respect and build it. If nothing else, so that other people will consider this path more seriously, and so we can be taken more seriously as compared with other business people who didn't build up from scratch.
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