A short YouTube monologue by David Jenyns (uploaded June 12, 2025) critiquing the common desire to "be an entrepreneur" as often a proxy for wanting wealth or fame. The speaker argues that founding a company should be driven by solving an important problem unmet by existing institutions, not by the desire to start a company for its own sake.
There probably are a lot of people who end up trying to be somewhat fake entrepreneurs, where the goal is to be an entrepreneur. If you ask people, what do you want to do with your life? What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to be an entrepreneur, which I always think is disturbingly, somewhat too common. And saying that you want to be an entrepreneur is saying, I want to be rich or I want to be famous. Nobody in their right mind starts a company for the sake of starting a company. You start a company because there's a very important problem, problem to solve that's not getting solved in large governmental or non profit or for profit institutions. And that's why you actually need to start a new company. Just starting a company for the sake of doing so is a really odd thing to do.
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