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Incorrect. In fact YC’s (i.e. the website you’re on) whole thesis is that it’s a lot easier to found a business successfully than most people imagine. Yeah, they’ve drifted from their roots a little but I think it’s been proved out.

The irony is killing me.


It’s incredibly easy to found/start a business.

It’s incredibly hard to build that beginning into a profitable money machine.


80% of businesses fail within 5 years.


Well, less than 1% of lifeforms are born as humans but that doesn’t seem to scare people into not having babies.


Interesting, but I don't get it. Are you saying people aren't scared of having babies even though they can randomly give birth to an ant or an elephant?


How many have you founded? Important data point for such an opinion.


Can you explain how this doesn’t amount to saying “You seem like you’re brave. There’s another option: be a coward.”

You don’t seem to be proposing an alternative strategy with equivalent risk/reward dynamics, rather, it seems like what amounts to anathema to entrepreneurship.


some people would rather be well paid, secure cowards than scrappy risk-taking heroes.


But GP is specifically talking to someone who isn’t in that bucket?


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