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Someone who works 80-hour weeks to avoid 40 hours for a boss.
means A person who starts and runs a business, taking on the financial risk in hopes of the reward.
from From French entreprendre, 'to undertake' — literally entre (between) + prendre (to take), as in taking something on. The word entered English in the early 1800s to describe someone who 'undertakes' a venture, and economists later sharpened it to mean the risk-taking organizer of business, distinct from the laborer or the financier.
- economist's term
- Popularized by Joseph Schumpeter, who linked it to innovation
- no accent needed
- English dropped the acute accents but kept the French swagger
- failure rate
- Most new businesses fail within five years, undeterred they retry
- not a job title
- Technically a risk-bearer, not a role on an org chart