It doesn't seem surprising to me. Doing anything really hard is as much about mastering oneself as about domain knowledge. You'd hear similar things from a lot of top athletes, for example.
And while "entrepreneurship" in general is not necessarily hard, the path Slava has chosen is. It's not easy to start a new database company.
And while "entrepreneurship" in general is not necessarily hard, the path Slava has chosen is. It's not easy to start a new database company.
He deserves better than snarky one-liners.