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Why I don’t want to be a founder – Zara Zhang

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Almost every day someone asks me: “do you wanna start your own thing someday?” And people are always surprised when they hear my answer: No, at least not in the next 10 years. There are…

These days it seems fashionable to be a startup founder. Everyone around me is either one or trying to be one. When I go to a party in Silicon Valley, virtually everyone I meet starts their self introduction with “I have an AI startup that does X”, and then launches into a well-rehearsed elevator pitch about why their startup will change the world. To be honest, I’m so sick of it. The world doesn’t need that many startups. Almost every day someone asks me: “do you wanna start your own thing someday?” And people are always surprised when they hear my answer:

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