The people I know that have fallen in to the &quot;entrepreneurship porn&quot; trap all focus on the &quot;no pressure, free time to other things, early retirement&quot; based on the millions they&#x27;ll earn.  No one who&#x27;s really fallen hard (&quot;we&#x27;re gonna be the next Facebook&quot;) is heading in that direction because they&#x27;re interested in &quot;creating jobs&quot;.  And... they may say &quot;working hard&quot; but often the real hard stuff comes up... they fold anyway.<p>I&#x27;ve also known some successful entrepreneurs who aren&#x27;t afraid of working hard, but even then, professional curiosity, a bug to &#x27;build&#x27; and other factors were at play.  No one&#x27;s stated goals were <i>ever</i> &quot;I want to create jobs&quot;.  The goal is the business.  Couple friends of mine run small businesses pulling in a few million&#x2F;year.  Each would be just as happy if they could do it with 5 employees vs 40 employees - &quot;creating jobs&quot; was not their goal - &quot;solving a need in the market&quot; was.