18th
Richard Wolpert’s Waverunner Adventure
A new friend in LA Richard Wolpert, who is an entrepreneur and venture advisor for Accel partners, just completed a solo long distance trip on his wave runner off the coast of Southern California, he did over 450 miles on the trip.
The open ocean can be dangerous in a boat I can not imagine what it would be like on a wave runner. You can see pictures and info about the trip at his blog here.
There is one quote that he wrote about the trip that I loved:
“Was so rough for the first 30 miles I could only go 10-15 mph. This was the first time I seriously questioned what I was doing. I had been out there for a few hours and my distance to go count had only gone from 80 to 60 and I was really getting beaten up.”
In almost every business I have ever launched you hit this point (usually more than once) where you say “What the F>ck am I doing?” Continuing to go forward against that pain typically results in great things and in my mind it is what separates real entrepreneurs from the wanna be’s.
Pushing beyond that breaking point and making success still happen is one of the things that real makes being an entrepreneur so satisfying.
