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by poundy 5494 days ago
> Sad. But I have to say - climbing Everest when your wife is due to give birth - not cool.

I believe this is exactly why he is the CEO of a popular company and others like me are not. He takes risks most of us avoid for various reasons!
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kenjackson 5494 days ago
I believe they're not strongly correlated. I know a lot of people that take risks that most of us avoid. Most of these people share very few characteristics of your typical CEO. Half of them end up on YouTube with clips that begin with, "Check this out...".
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rmobin 5494 days ago
It's a big difference to risk starting a company vs climbing Mt Everest. That's actually a big mental block people have - they are afraid of risk, but starting a company or asking a cute girl out and failing is more of an ego hit than a threat to your existence.
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hernan7 5494 days ago
He was the CEO of a popular company.
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