Mark Kohler says kids should work for someone else first as intrapreneurs, developing people skills, marketing, and determination before starting their own business. This teaches humility and structure that solo entrepreneurship skips.
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Before you become a good leader, you have to learn how to be a good follower. Successful and wealthy parents will teach their children to work for someone else first. Some call this being an intrapreneur. Before launching their own business, many wealthy individuals learned the ropes inside someone else's company. They teach their kids to become intrapreneurs, applying all the same concepts of an entrepreneur owning their own business but applying it to someone else's. Learning those people skills, marketing skills, learning how to apply determination and creativity in someone else's business before they practice on their own. Working for someone else also teaches structure, management, customer service, and humility, all the things that make your business thrive later, and they become the kind of employee that they want to hire someday.