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I am Stupid. I Start a Company. I am now a Stupid Entrepreneur || Acharya Prashant@IIT Roorkee(2026)
Acharya Prashant
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Entrepreneurship
Self-Knowledge
Materialism
Success
Conditioning
Homo Sapiens
Choice
Ignorance
Description

Acharya Prashant critiques the modern concept of entrepreneurship, arguing that for most, it is merely a primitive pursuit of material accumulation disguised by sophisticated language. He explains that many entrepreneurs are driven by the same childhood desire for bigger toys, now replaced by numerical targets like profits, valuations, and fatter packages. This lack of self-knowledge leads to a culture where the ultimate goal is an 'exit'—celebrating the abandonment of one's own creation for money. He describes this as an obscene and loveless approach to work, where the business is never truly valued for its purpose but only as a means to an end.