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Why was it miserable? and, why do you think that as an entrepreneur you won't still be building businesses well into your 50s 60s and 70s with teams of ambitio

• bkovitz 17y ago
  Really good questions. 1. Grad school was miserable because of time-fragmentation. Four simultaneous projects (classes) => couldn't focus on any of them. 2. I think that by nature, I am not really an entrepreneur. I'm a curious person, a tinkerer, someone who mostly enjoys coming up with a really good theory to explain some facts and open up new lines of thought and research. I've met people with a genuinely entrepreneurial mentality: they can't help but see how to negotiate a better deal, broker solutions to practical problems, pounce on opportunities before the crowd values them correctly, surprise their competitors with something unexpected. I admire those qualities, but that sort of thing wears me out fast. Theorizing and seeding other people with cool ideas, though—I never tire of those.