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How did you decide to start your first company?
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How did you decide to start your first company?
I was working at this tech company called @Home Network, and I told everybody around me—my boss, coworkers, my friends, “In Silicon Valley, all of these other people are start- ing companies. It looks like they can do it. I’m going to start a company. I’m just here temporarily. I’m an entrepreneur.” …I didn’t actually mean to trick myself into it. It wasn’t a delib- erate, calculated thing. I was just venting, talking out loud, being overly honest. But I didn’t actually start a company. This was in 1996, it was a much scarier, more difficult proposition to start a company then. Sure enough, everyone started saying “What are you still doing here? I thought you were leaving to start a company?” and “Wow, you’re still here…” I was literally embarrassed into starting my own company. [5] Yes, I know some people aren’t necessarily ready to be entre- preneurs, but long-term, where did we come up with this idea the correct logical thing to do is for everybody to work for somebody else? It is a very hierarchical model. [14] FIND WORK THAT FEELS LIKE PLAY Humans evolved as hunters and gatherers where we all worked for ourselves. It’s only at the beginning of agriculture we became more hierarchical. The Industrial Revolution and factories made us extremely hierarchical because one indi- vidual couldn’t necessarily own or build a factory, but now, thanks to the internet, we’re going back to an age where more and more people can work for themselves. I would rather be a B U I L D I N G W E A L T H · 77 failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried. Because even a failed entrepreneur has the skill set to make it on their own. [14] There are almost 7 billion people on this planet. Someday, I hope, there will be almost 7 billion companies. I learned how to make money because it was a necessity. After it stopped being a necessity, I stopped caring about it. At least for me, work was a means to an end. Making money was a means to an end. I’m much more interested in solving prob- lems than I am in making money. Any end goal will just lead to another goal, lead to another goal. We just play games in life. When you grow up, you’re playing the school game, or you’re playing the social game. Then you’re playing the money game, and then you’re playing the status game. These games just have longer and longer and longer- lived horizons. At some point, at least I believe, these are all just games. These are games where the outcome really stops mattering once you see through the game. Then you just get tired of games. I would say I’m at the stage where I’m just tired of games. I don’t think there is any end goal or purpose. I’m just living life as I want to. I’m literally just doing it moment to moment. I want to be off the hedonic treadmill. [1] What you really want is freedom. You want freedom from your money problems, right? I think that’s okay. Once you can solve 78 · T H E A L M A N A C K O F N A V A L R A V I K A N T your money problems, either by lowering your lifestyle or by making enough money, you want to retire. Not retirement at sixty-five years old, sitting in a nursing home collecting a check retirement—it’s a different definition. Download 1.8 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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