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Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money

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Resurfaced independently across 4 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2017–2021
peak thread · 91 comments
128 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-07-01
99 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Being a developer really helps. I've interviewed many dozens of self-funded founders who've explained that the reason they felt comfortable "taking the leap" of entrepreneurship was because they knew they could always fall back to working as developers. Getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write code is a pretty solid fallback plan. This was true for me as well, and is why I've never had trouble starting things, even when I didn't have investors or a rich family…

csallen·128-point thread·

It is simple. 1. Some people take risk because they CAN and probably what they have seen from their family/parents (a.k.a rich/privilege). It is the cool thing to do. 2. Some people take risk because they WANT to regardless of their family situation (I am in this category). I just cannot see myself working in a job. 3. Some people take risk because they HAVE to. They have nothing else going on for them and doing their own thing is…

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
232

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Total comments
163

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