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Then AI and steady leadership at the Fed grabbed the stick and pulled out of the dive, markets came back (again led by tech). Now the hype machine has clicked back to 11. It’s a good time to recall our tendency to put aside our skepticism when times are good. Some of today’s prophets will turn out to be frauds, just like last time. I wrote the following post 18 months ago, it’s just as true today, and will be true tomorrow. 

[The following was originally published on January 21, 2022.]

 

“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”

                                                    — Robert Browning

Entrepreneur is a synonym for salesperson, and salesperson is the pedestrian term for storyteller. Pro tip: No startup makes sense. We (entrepreneurs) are all impostors who must deploy a fiction (i.e. story) that captures imaginations and capital to pull the future forward and turn rhyme into reason. No business I have started, at the moment of inception, made any sense … until it did. Or didn’t. The only way to predict the future is to make it.

[The following was originally published on January 21, 2022.]

Entrepreneur is a synonym for salesperson, and salesperson is the pedestrian term for storyteller. Pro tip: No startup makes sense. We (entrepreneurs) are all impostors who must deploy a fiction (i.e. story) that captures imaginations and capital to pull the future forward and turn rhyme into reason. No business I have started, at the moment of inception, made any sense … until it did. Or didn’t. The only way to predict the future is to make it.

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