Ray Deck argues that entrepreneurs must embrace instability and constant growth, unlike traditional employees seeking stability. Founders wear multiple hats, especially sales, to deliver value and charge more for their offerings. Those who thrive on chaos should pursue entrepreneurship.
To be an entrepreneur is to embrace instability. You want tomorrow to not be like today. You want to be bigger than today, right? You're looking for growth, certainly. And that instability is going to be antithetical to you being a good employee in the vast majority of cases. I think sometimes people think, well, I'll just be a product manager. Being a product manager is like being a CEO, a little mini CEO, right? And then the answer is only sort of. A lot of this really has to do with whether you are delivering great value and increasing value. And frankly, you're charging for it more. More and more. An entrepreneur is also going to be a salesperson. They usually have to wear multiple hats in order for them to be successful. And that kind of thing is going to be antithetical to maximizing your value in the context of working for a larger organization. Those multiple hats are great from the point of view of the leader or the embodiment of the firm. This is where like the whole founder mode thing comes in. But it's really a, is that what you want? And if you can embrace instability, if instability, if chaos is what you thrive, be an entrepreneur.
