CHAPTER 5
GAIN
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
REED HASTINGS, CEO, NETFLIX
For a short while, I thought I might want to teach children, or at least that was the career my mother had planned for me. During college I was a student teacher in a sixth-grade classroom in New York City. After that experience I declared grade school teachers to be saints. I quickly abandoned that career path, following my own goal of being a designer and artist. Eventually I did become an educator—in higher education. So it wasn’t teaching itself that dissuaded me back then. In fact, I am passionate ...
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