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Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort.

— Luke Nosek

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.

— Aileen Lee

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

— Luke Nosek

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

— Arthur Rock

We're starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses.

— Ryan Bethencourt

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

— Foster Friess

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

— Chris Toumazou

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

— Keith Henson

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

— Jason Calacanis

Relatively few people should start companies.

— Reid Hoffman

✗Opposing Perspectives

Most startup entrepreneurs unnecessarily spend half their time and give up half their equity in search of funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. Tens of millions of dollars are available to them for free from partners who not only don't want their equity, they don't even want to be paid back.

— Jay Samit