Entrepreneurs are a different breed.
What looks reckless, stupid, or completely insane to normal people…
Is often just the price of building something that matters.
Here are 10 “retarded” things founders do that defy logic — but somehow, make perfect sense in hindsight.
“Normal people”: “You’re wasting your time. Just get a job.”
Entrepreneurs: Quit their stable jobs, cash out savings, and work 16 hours a day for something that doesn’t even exist yet.
Example: Elon Musk put his last USD 180M from PayPal into Tesla and SpaceX instead of retiring rich. Everyone thought he was insane. He just saw further than the rest.
To outsiders, it looks like arrogance or delusion.
But when data is incomplete, intuition — built from obsession and pattern recognition — can outperform logic.
Example: Steve Jobs ignored market research when creating the iPhone.
“People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
He wasn’t guessing. He was betting on conviction.
Founders will go broke, sleep in offices, eat instant noodles, and reject high salaries — all to “own something” that might die tomorrow.
Example: Airbnb’s founders literally sold cereal (“Obama O’s”) just to survive.
Normal people saw failure. They were just getting started.
They look at society’s habits and say, “We’ll change that.”
Everyone else says, “Good luck with that.”
Examples:
Insanity? Maybe. Until it works.
To outsiders, it’s toxic.
To entrepreneurs, it’s purpose. A game. A mission.
When you’re building something that could change your life (or the world), 9–5 just feels like a slow death.
“Normal” businesses wait until it’s perfect.
Entrepreneurs say: “Ship it now. Fix it later.”
Early Facebook, early Windows, early everything — all half-broken.
Perfection kills momentum. Shipping builds it.
They’ll manually onboard customers, personally deliver products, or email every single user by hand.
To normal people, that’s dumb.
To founders, it’s learning.
You can’t automate what you don’t understand yet.
They’ll fail in front of investors, employees, and family — and then start again next week.
Normal people: “Embarrassing.”
Entrepreneurs: “Iteration.”
Failure isn’t shame. It’s just unpaid R&D.
To others, it sounds delusional.
But that story — that belief — is what attracts believers, investors, and teams before there’s anything real.
Every great company starts as a “crazy” story told by someone with nothing but conviction.
They break hierarchy, skip resumes, ignore dress codes, and question everything.
To the corporate world, it’s chaos.
To founders, it’s freedom.
Example: The best founders hire people smarter than them — no titles, no structure, just pure velocity.
Entrepreneurs aren’t crazy.
They just see what others can’t — yet.
While most people play safe, founders bet on possibility.
They fail publicly, learn fast, and build what everyone else said was impossible.
That’s the kind of “crazy” we exist for.
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