Successful founders are driven by intrinsic compulsion, not rational analysis—they possess the obsessive drive needed to survive brutal realities of failed pitches, financial crises, and insoluble problems that force most people to quit. Corporate professionals entering startups through spreadsheet calculations are fundamentally misaligned with what founding demands: total commitment, transformation from specialist to generalist, and relentless hardship with no success guarantee. The widening gap between today's startup narrative and grinding reality explains why most corporate-to-founder transitions fail.
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