The Surprising Reality of Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

24 Jan 2024 · 0 min

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A first-person monologue (Charles Cormier) reflecting on starting a business at 15 with naive expectations of quick wealth, but discovering it took roughly 30 years to reach success. The speaker highlights the emotional toll—shame, guilt, mistakes—and frames hindsight as wisdom about what he didn’t know earlier.

I had no idea how hard it was going to be. Like, when I was 15 and I started my first business, I thought, I'm a millionaire in 10 minutes, right? If I'd known it would be 30 years later, I might not have done it. I might have taken a different path, right? So I think. I think that's wisdom, is knowing what you didn't know. So I threw myself at it 100%. He talks about the shame, the guilt, the mistakes, all these things that should have gone right, that went wrong.