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Quoted in the article: “Can you name any non-serial entrepreneurs? I can’t think of any of the top of my head… all entrepreneurs seem to be serial offenders. Ma
by georgemcbay 14y ago
Quoted in the article: “Can you name any non-serial entrepreneurs? I can’t think of any of the top of my head… all entrepreneurs seem to be serial offenders. Max Levchin, Evan Williams, Justin Khan, Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey, Mark Pincus… (and a dozen other names).”
Isn't this obviously selection bias? Of course you don't hear much about one-failure-and-done entrepreneurs. Why would you, unless their failure was somehow exceptionally spectacular? But that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of them... there are likely many, many more of them than those that stick with it.
- apsec112 14y agoOf course, but I think it's only talking about entrepreneurs who have already had at least one success
- georgemcbay 14y agoEven in that situation, while that cuts the number down I'd still put good money on there being a lot more entrepreneurs who had one great success and then cashed out compared to the number who are "serial entrepreneurs". I think there's still SV-bubble (not economic bubble, but bubble in the social isolation sense) logic going on there in assuming the majority are serial. Of course, I have no data to back this up (but neither does the other viewpoint -- a list of 8 or so guys is hardly a good argument for that side).
- MBlume 14y agoI don't think the quote is about one-failure-and-done entrepreneurs, I think it's about the dearth of one-success-and-done entrepreneurs