CHAPTER 3Do you have the E-gene?
What is an entrepreneur? The dictionary definition is “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.”1
But that’s far from the whole story!
Entrepreneurs don’t just run businesses – they create, expand, and redesign them. They risk the unproven to realize and constantly evolve the future.
Entrepreneurs don’t just make and supply products and services – they imagine them and constantly adapt them to meet existing and anticipated customer needs.
Entrepreneurs don’t just meet the demands of markets and existing customers – they adapt markets and they create new customers. They expand, diversify, and evolve.
Entrepreneurs don’t sleep – they dream. And they take risks to see their dreams become reality.
An entrepreneur’s business is never a “done deal” – like entrepreneurs themselves, it’s always a work in progress.
For decades, people have asked, “Are entrepreneurs made or born?” Unquestionably, they are born with a “spark.” Successful entrepreneurs fan that spark and continually strengthen their entrepreneurial “muscle.”
Through the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year program, we have the privilege of getting to know many of the world’s finest entrepreneurs.
“Those who have been independently selected as EY Entrepreneur Of The Year winners and finalists from their peers over the more than 30 years our program has been in existence are truly exemplary,” says Ryan Burke, EY ...