I think those people need to be broken down proper before there&#x27;s any chance of salvaging them. Living with one of those, this is the mental tape that plays in my head whenever they mention anything &quot;startup&quot;.<p>&quot;Hrm, great, but what have you been smoking. Your business idea sounds like something a 5 year old drew in Crayola after watching an episode of shark tank. Your equity won&#x27;t buy you a roll of single-ply toilet paper if you had a coupon. You&#x27;re starting a startup, which is the most blunt force trauma way of getting paid market rate, and your (business) degree...well, it&#x27;s worth less than your equity . That network you built whilst doing case studies on Apple is going to help you as much as a lifeboat in the Sahara. Only thing you have is a bit of hustle, and there&#x27;s people running fruit-stands in shenzhen that have more of it than you. Sit down, shut up and do things, and maybe in 5 years you&#x27;ll make a decent founder.&quot;<p>I mean you&#x27;d hope that it&#x27;d stick, but it doesn&#x27;t. Nothing more infuriating than people talking the talk whilst you&#x27;re walking the walk. My reading list is longer than your business plan, so fermez la porte and do stuff instead of distracting me whilst I&#x27;m trying to work.<p>It&#x27;s really weird. 
&#x2F;rant<p>I&#x27;m aware that it might be angry and off-topic, but I thought some parts fit the &quot;straight outta b1zn3zsk00l&quot; people.