Andreas Widmer on the Traits of an Entrepreneur

I would describe an entrepreneur like a person who sees an additional color. Everybody sees chaos. They look at, they see chaos and entrepreneur sees patterns. That's why often people think that entrepreneurs are crazy because they say, I can't believe that they're doing this, but they see something. They perceive a pattern. Often people say, oh, everybody can be an entrepreneur. That's not true. I think one in a thousand is an entrepreneur because they have that talent of seeing patterns where other people see chaos. One in a thousand of all people is an entrepreneur. And in the United States or in the Western world we have tapped those. But in the emerging markets we haven't really enabled them. They might be doing something, they do something small because they haven't been enabled. They haven't been connected to networks of productivity and exchange that would allow their ideas and their companies to scale, to grow and to benefit everybody around them.