That sounds good, but with a safety net, are you really going to be hungry enough to make sure your one shot at getting out of the ghetto doesn't fail? The entrepreneur that says to themselves, if this doesn't work, I'll just ask mom for another $300k at St Barts over Christmas doesn't sound like the one sleeping under the desk at the office to get the demo ready for TechCrunch Disrupt. Or maybe they are (to prove daddy wrong). The human condition contains multitudes.

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flag_fagger an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> doesn't sound like the one sleeping under the desk at the office to get the demo ready for TechCrunch Disrupt

For what? Their garbage SaaS that barely works and is just a thin veneer for advertisers to gorge on my data?

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ericjmorey 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Musk all had enough hunger to beat out literally everyone else

	▲	raw_anon_1111 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And they also all came from money.

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ikiris 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ahh yes, classic HN: "People only succeed/work hard if their only other option is death"

	▲	saimiam 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My wife and I are starting to test this theory. We are putting our kid in an expensive school, then starting a business to support our lifestyle. If we fail, our kid’ll have to go to a cheaper school and we’d have lost a few years of school fees. If we succeed, yay. By the time, our are faced with the choice, our kid will be embedded in school so ripping them out of it is going to be a tough choice. So, yeah, we’re essentially burning our boats and fighting to survive.