In general means being a founder or working for a startup will become this watered down term for a money losing profession.

In the 10s, a startup was a specific kind of business that used cloud computing and has zero marginal cost for the next unit of production.

Today, people are calling themselves founders of startups but the marginal cost of a unit once you including labor is higher than revenue. Many aren't paying themselves, so its just nepotism investment, founders living off family cash, for an app or a thing that has no chance of becoming viable. How's that not capital destructive?

founding or working on an early stage startup has always been -EV. If you're in it for the money, you're simply making a bad decision. It's closer to being an actor or musician than anything else

Definitely the worst career decision that I had no choice but to make, lol.

pg's def of a startup (and indirectly of the founder) still rings most true to me.. "A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth."

But not sure we use the words entrepreneur or founder with much distinction these days.