In order to be respected and have your voice heard in a team that has a lot of extremely talented people (ie lead a successful startup), then one has to specialize in something. Eg be a world class software engineer or some really experienced PhD. And so if you are young but want enough respect to do some capital intensive project you have to be a whiz kid like Wozniak. But if you are not a true outlier at a technical or art skill then you have to climb up the ladder. Alternatively, you can more easily make yourself a “whiz kid” at entrepeneurship with some effort because most people on earth are not trying in that dimension.
But entrepeneurship is kind of confusing because a lot of my other friends who “try” to do entrepeneurship aren’t aware that even if you are an entrepreneur there is still a specialization you are required to cultivate, which is “make money come out”. Because it’s like, I might be an engineer who’s old enough to be your dad but I’ll respect you as a leader even though youre very young because you specialize in “make money come out”. We are each specialized in something, therefore we have mutual trade and respect for each other.
So my other friends just dabble in a bunch of stuff but don’t focus on cultivating this skill and they don’t get very far or are taken very seriously. In fact sometimes they actively shy away from the “make money come out” part, which I’ve always found confusing. And then they just stick to their job at Google.
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