Entrepreneur

Starting a company is partly an act of imagination and partly a long sequence of unglamorous decisions about pricing, hiring, and which customer to serve next. Entrepreneurs hold both at once.

The role rewards a particular willingness to live with uncertainty and to keep moving when the answer is not yet clear. Students drawn to founding tend to be impatient with the way things are and patient with the people they need to convince.

Strong founders run customer discovery interviews the Mom Test way, watch unit economics like a hawk, and use tools like Cursor to ship working product before hiring a team. You grow into it by starting small things now, learning from each one, and developing real judgment about what to build.