I find it sometimes very frustrating to read about all these people doing start-ups (who I am cheering to succeed - I have nothing against others succeeding, no matter how good their circumstances are) talk about the struggle and the hard work, etc. It's inevitable that either consciously or subconsciously you do a mental comparison between yourself and these people.
Sometimes, I tend to have questions such as "ummm... why am I not/did not follow similar path". I don't dwell to much on it as I catch myself and look at their background. For example, I will use the founder of one particular company (which I won't name). Let's see, father is CEO/founder of a medical company (ie. already no risk of any real failure - dad is available for a start-up capital and a job if things don't workout). He is graduating from Stanford (already higher chance of success, considering the reputation and connections that exist). I watch a presentation with the father and son and I just could not understand how this person felt they were taking a huge risk by doing their start-up versus "getting a job". He mentioned the risk and it really emphasized the vacuum some of these founders live in.
I will gladly give more respect to people such as Mark Cuban and many others like him who have built their companies from the start with real risk and real failure.
I wish the best of success for these people that do have these really good circumstances. Being able to leverage their good fortune to do a start-up is adding value to society but I tend to find it a bit too much sometimes when I read about the struggles of these people that have the good circumstances. I also feel it perhaps leads some people astray who should not do a start-up as the consequences of failure are extremely bad as they don't have the good circumstances to cushion the failures.
I think there is some truth to what you said. But I dislike your example. I don't think born rich is necessarily a good thing nor that everyone wants to born rich. Another thing is that I think most people prefer to not use parents' money. Using someone else's money (even if it is your parents' money) will cause you to lose some control and power. In other words, if you use parents' money very often, then you probably have to listen to your parents a lot..I don't know about others..but I generally don't want to listen to my parents...
I find it sometimes very frustrating to read about all these people doing start-ups (who I am cheering to succeed - I have nothing against others succeeding, no matter how good their circumstances are) talk about the struggle and the hard work, etc. It's inevitable that either consciously or subconsciously you do a mental comparison between yourself and these people.
Sometimes, I tend to have questions such as "ummm... why am I not/did not follow similar path". I don't dwell to much on it as I catch myself and look at their background. For example, I will use the founder of one particular company (which I won't name). Let's see, father is CEO/founder of a medical company (ie. already no risk of any real failure - dad is available for a start-up capital and a job if things don't workout). He is graduating from Stanford (already higher chance of success, considering the reputation and connections that exist). I watch a presentation with the father and son and I just could not understand how this person felt they were taking a huge risk by doing their start-up versus "getting a job". He mentioned the risk and it really emphasized the vacuum some of these founders live in.
I will gladly give more respect to people such as Mark Cuban and many others like him who have built their companies from the start with real risk and real failure.
I wish the best of success for these people that do have these really good circumstances. Being able to leverage their good fortune to do a start-up is adding value to society but I tend to find it a bit too much sometimes when I read about the struggles of these people that have the good circumstances. I also feel it perhaps leads some people astray who should not do a start-up as the consequences of failure are extremely bad as they don't have the good circumstances to cushion the failures.