My book project started with me reading biographies about entrepreneurs and sharing what I learned. During that process, I realized there’s no central repository of all the wisdom of entrepreneurs who came before us. I decided to create one and came up with this mission:

Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

This project is super early, but I’ve been thinking about the impact it could have. The thing I keep coming back to is economic mobility. Starting a business that becomes successful is the fastest way to climb the economic ladder, which is why I think entrepreneurship is such a powerful force. Families who struggled financially for generations have seen their circumstances change in a few years because they started a successful business. There are numerous examples of family patriarchs and matriarchs starting businesses and their families still benefiting economically many generations later. Their descendants have continued to climb the economic ladder because of their business (or the resources it created).

Entrepreneurs still must do the work. There’s no substitute for execution and no shortcut to it. But if this project is successful, I can see it boosting many entrepreneurs. Making learnings of notable entrepreneurs easily accessible and helping other entrepreneurs figure out how to apply them could accelerate their velocity and increase their chances of success. If more entrepreneurs are successful, more people, and their families, will experience economic mobility and, hopefully, economic independence.