Tom Frazier started a company knowing failure wouldn't destroy him financially, but warns that founding is lonely and intensely painful. He says it's only viable for people without kids or crushing debt, because the personal cost is too high otherwise.
And so for me, it was a bit of a lighter decision to make because you know what, if I started a company and I was working at it for 2 years and it didn't work, I have an awesome experience set to go get another job. You know, I can, anyone can get another job. It's just a question of can you endure the pain of being a startup founder for some period of time? And that pain is not to be underestimated. It is painful. It's rewarding, but it's painful, it's lonely, it's very hard. And so if I had children when I started this journey, or if I had huge student loan debts or all these other kind of issues, that pain may not have been the right choice.
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