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by Tiktaalik 1072 days ago
Pretty much everywhere really.

Several years ago I was mulling starting up a retail store in my town and when I looked closer at some of retail stores I liked in similar/adjacent markets I couldn't help but notice the backgrounds of the young founders of those stores, that they just so happened to come from enormously rich families and were obviously independently wealthy.

Their outwardly appearing successful stores may have well been simple hobbies and passion projects.

Possibly these persons were also great business persons and those stores were genuine profitable successes, but there was really no way of knowing. It was something that did dissuade me somewhat from my idea of venturing down the same path.

I absolutely did not have the sort of infinite safety net that they had.