Too frequently the cultural narrative of the entrepreneur is one of emancipated hero or heroine, almost transcendental in his/her splendour of success and defeating of the odds.
Yet the suicide of Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of Diaspora, a social networking site and of well-known founder Jody Sherman, 47, of the e-commerce site Ecomom raises the spectre of the other narrative:
entrepreneurship “…is a perilous privilege, which the gods watch jealously waiting for the fatal flaw…”....
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