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The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the line, made commitments to investors, employees, customers and friends, and tried \u2013 against all the forces in the world that try to keep new ideas down \u2013 to make something new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a lot to say on this subject after AdamsBlock. Unfortunately, I&#8217;ll need a few more years until I can go into detail without sounding bitter or depressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Dixon: I don\u2019t care if you succeed or fail, if you are Bill Gates or an unknown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-B7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2308,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":2301,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We&#8217;re All Going To Miss Almost Everything&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"NPR: If \"well-read\" means \"not missing anything,\" then nobody has a chance. 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