Everyone wants to be a founder. Few understand the cost.
Reality check:
1.99% of startups fail. Your odds are likely worse.
2. Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
3. Most "revolutionary" ideas are incremental at best.
4. Founder life:
Definitely, fewer exceptions are definitely there who became founders but not employees before but that's exceptional thing and people don't understand that and face huge reality check
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