Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And I’ve noticed something. When I started doing Mixergy, the dream in entrepreneurship was to create a software company, that was the dream. That’s why people like the founders of Wufoo were listening, that’s why the founders of Airbnb were listening. That’s what they were aspiring to do. That’s what they did.
But today I have to be honest, as I look around the world, people are no longer aspiring to become software entrepreneurs. If you’re listening to me, frankly, you’re kind of a weirdo. People used to admire you and want to be like you. Today they just think, “Well, it’s kind of, I don’t know, it seems a little remote, a little distant, a little weird to me.”
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