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I said yes to building a business with a guy I met on bumble

Name: I said yes to building a business with a guy I met on bumble
Uploaded: 2022-04-05T15:00:11+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker explains why they agreed to start a business with someone they met on Bumble when they were 23 years old. They frame…

5 Apr 2022 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker explains why they agreed to start a business with someone they met on Bumble when they were 23 years old. They frame the decision as a low‑stakes gamble: the worst‑case scenario would be living on their parents’ couch, which they consider manageable. The speaker highlights how most people catastrophize potential outcomes, overestimating the downside of risk. By contrast, they assess the risk–reward balance, noting that at 23 they have little to lose and plenty of time to rebuild, making the potential reward worth the modest risk.

I said yes to building a business with a guy I met on Bumble because I was 23. I had nothing to lose. I thought to myself, what's the worst case scenario? The worst case scenario is that I literally end up on my parents' couch, and that's not even that bad. They do my laundry, they cook food, they can take care of me, whatever. So like, the worst case scenario for most people to take a risk is actually not that bad, but we catastrophize in our minds what it actually could be. Most people would think, why would you risk that? You would lose everything you built. Like, I'm 23, who cares? I've barely built anything. I have my entire life to build something more. And so it's outweighing the risk versus the reward, and the risk was very low.