As a general rule, founders don’t get a lot of sympathy from the public at large. We live in an era where entrepreneurs are celebrated and even lionized while their success stories are widely covered in the media. Nothing wrong with that, but the focus on founders who have exited their businesses and pocketed life-changing sums of money in the process can obscure the fact that running a company prior to a liquidity event is not something that will necessarily make you rich, or even particularly comfortable.”
“Entrepreneurs are often well off on paper,” says Tristan Schnegg, co-founder and partner at Collective Equity. “But they might not