Over my 30 years in Silicon Valley, I’ve had the good fortune to meet thousands of entrepreneurs, and a few dozen great ones. People often ask me: What separates the exceptional entrepreneurs from the rest of the pack?
What follows is my attempt to answer that question. I retired from the venture capital business in 2005 to teach at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In both of those jobs, I thought about exceptional entrepreneurship a lot. A few years later, at a time in my life when starting a company was the furthest thing from my mind, I became an entrepreneur myself, when I established a software-based financial advisor, Wealthfront. So I have three different perspectives on this issue.
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