What finally pushed you to start your first business?

Source: Quora

Answered by: Josh Fechter

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Even if you think you’re three times smarter than when you graduated college, the chances are you only get paid twice as much.

Probably less.

It’s not easy to climb the ladder.

Doesn’t matter how much value you provide.

The worst part: you cap out.

Most companies won’t pay you over $200,000 even if you’re responsible for most of their growth. I’m talking about adding million of dollars in revenue to their bottom line.

They don’t care.

Why?

Because you’re not taking risks.

People who take risks get paid more.

It’s that simple.

And people who take risks start businesses.

I don’t want to have limits, so I rather take risks.

It’s ugly on the other side.

Even if you work for one of the best tech companies in Silicon Valley and have a job in the top five percent of employees, then you still get paid less than $150,000/year.

Maybe that doesn’t sound too bad…until you think about it this way:

As an employee, you’re saying you don’t believe you will ever provide enough value to the world to where people would be willing to pay you more than $150,000.

Do you think you can provide more than $150,000 in value every year?

If so, then become an entrepreneur.