Bill Gates the Risk Taker?

Entrepreneurship is often equated to "Taking Risk", I personally do not see Entrepreneurs as risk takers. Entrepreneurs do things precisely because what they are doing makes sense to them. The same way that a tight rope walker in the circus, rarely ever falls. What he does might seem risky to the audience but is not at all risky to the performer himself.

In this blog  "Do You Really Know Bill Gates? The Myth of Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker" Tim Ferriss   looks at the story of Bill Gates and explores if Bill Gates was a risk taker.

Here are some more articles which dwell on this topic of the entrepreneur as a risk mitigator.

Dr. Mathew J Manimala of IIM-Bangalore share's his views in this article  Risk Manager , and shares how he discovered that "Entrepreneurs don't take unnecessary risks".

Here is something on a similar note I had written earlier "Its not about DARE"

Go deeper into any Entrepreneur's story and you will soon discover that all the steps he took were very rational at the time he took the decisions, based on the information and intention he had at the time.