>People who are not risk takers (this pretty much includes over 95% of the population) cannot fathom taking a chance to make a business work, and not having it

>People who are not risk takers (this pretty much includes over 95% of the population) cannot fathom taking a chance to make a business work, and not having it immediately take off. They especially cannot understand being involved in something that fails repeatedly, and instead of giving up, trying to make it work (while risking all of one’s financial worth) again and again. I think something like this happens to a lot of people who do startups: "Why on earth are you leaving a 50-100k job per year, with benefits, to do a startup?"