While I don't think that entrepreneurs have a "special gene for risk", this article is extremely misleading. It's looking just at the moneyed class of entrepreneurs and declaring that "entrepreneurs come from backgrounds that provide a lot of resources".
But there's another, much larger, group of entrepreneurs that don't come from such a background at all. I've had the good fortune to get to know and work with quite a lot of successful entrepreneurs and I'd say about 25% of them came from a "moneyed" background. The rest were just regular people with regular backgrounds who were obsessive about starting businesses.
But there's another, much larger, group of entrepreneurs that don't come from such a background at all. I've had the good fortune to get to know and work with quite a lot of successful entrepreneurs and I'd say about 25% of them came from a "moneyed" background. The rest were just regular people with regular backgrounds who were obsessive about starting businesses.