Your claim that successful founders come from rich families does not accord with my experience. Do you have any evidence for it?
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Replying to @DKThomp
These papers are both about entrepreneurship generally, not what you call "high-growth entrepreneurship." I believe a lawyer's son would be more likely to start a law firm, but that implies nothing about the backgrounds of successful startup founders.
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Since you're making big claims here, I would suggest you do more research specifically about this question. It would not be that difficult. For example, what proportion of the founders of the 50 highest valued startups went to private high schools?
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One way to test your own confidence about this point you "can't emphasize enough" is to ask how you'd feel about committing to an estimate, right now, in this thread, of what that number will turn out to be. I bet you'll find you're reluctant to.
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I suggested private schools because you said high-growth entrepreneurship was "concentrated among the rich." If you had said it was concentrated among people whose families weren't on Medicaid, I wouldn't have objected. But that is rather a weaker claim.
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You really should try the test I proposed though, and investigate the backgrounds of the most successful founders. I think you'd find it interesting, and it would probably make you more optimistic about the current state of things. And it would make a good article – or even book.
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