[gravitycop]

Crack dealers are entrepreneurs.

Most crack dealers work in large organizations with only one or a few entrepreneurs at the top. Does working at Microsoft or Google make one an entrepreneur?

As the article said:

Felipe Dias is one of the convicts Catherine plans to redirect into a legitimate enterprise.

He was once a lieutenant of the Mexican Mafia gang and made tens of thousands of dollars a month importing drugs and selling firearms and stolen cars.

A lieutenant is not a founder.

[rokhayakebe]

It is certainly harder to become a lieutenant of a drug cartel then becoming an executive at a corporation.

[kragen]

What's your metric? Are you basing that on direct experience with both, or some kind of statistics?

[rokhayakebe]

Direct Experience.

[kragen]

Can you elaborate? Unfortunately for some reason there aren't that many firsthand accounts of what is required to become a lieutenant in a drug cartel. If you can find time to write about your experiences, it would be a substantial contribution to the public discourse.