Entrepreneurship went from greedy to cool between the dot-com boom and social media rise, but people still think success happens overnight. It doesn't. Years of work precede what looks sudden.
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The school system now at least recognizes that entrepreneurship is fun, is cool, is valuable. When I was growing up, we were vilified. We were greedy capitalists, and entrepreneurship did not become cool until I was around 30 years old. 1995 through 2000, in the rise of the internet boom, in the first dot-com era, is when entrepreneurship became cool. And then with the rise of social media, 2007 through 2010, 2010, '12, entrepreneurship became the thing. So I was battling some headwinds. But I think the disservice is that too many people think that it's easy to be an entrepreneur and they miss the point, right? They're not getting the whole story about how hard it really is. It takes a long time to get to the night before you become that overnight success story.