
Why be an entrepreneur?
Why go through all the trouble of being an entrepreneur, when you know it’s going to be hard? While you might think you’re the boss, you have to answer to many people, and there are a number of unanticipated challenges you face everyday.
In this video interview, Ben Congleton the CEO & Co-Founder of Olark, and I talk about why we decided to become entrepreneurs, what drove us to start, how we started small and then decided to quit our full time jobs, and how we deal with the challenges we face everyday.

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