Entrepreneurship is not a calling with a linear path, like medicine or law or finance. I should know—my brother is an investment banker. Like me, he often visits colleges to talk to students about their career options. A couple of times, he and I have ended up in separate rooms on the same campus, each of us counseling some of the country’s brightest college kids about their career paths. We call it “battling for the souls of America’s youth.” He tells them all about junior analyst positions with eighty-hour workweeks and starting salaries in the six figures. I tell them all about startup
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