What Rory Sutherland thinks about startups
Rory Sutherland is vice chairman of Ogilvy UK, where he helped found the agency's behavioural science practice. He wrote Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business and Life, and writes a column for The Spectator.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Rory Sutherland has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsyou don't find entrepreneurs in chess clubs. You find entrepreneurs in casinos. They're playing poker. They're playing bat gam. You know, they're playing games of chance with an occasional very high payoff. And a lot of life is exactly like that, but you don't know where the huge payoff's going to come in advance.
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