Founders

The most common metaphor for entrepreneurship is sport or war

A more apt metaphor might be gardening — the main goal is to nurture the plant life until it has strength of its own

Show up every day, water it a bit, make sure it gets sun and is protected from pests / weather. Look back in a decade, you’ll have an orchard

Unless it’s wartime and I need to vanquish the enemy from existence

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

You’re not a wartime consigliere, sixteen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

I've been both...

I have to agree, I personally would rather be a warrior in the garden...

However, I would not have known that or reached the position in which it matters...IF, I had not been a gardener in a war...

I'd say you both are correct in your timing in your life...