Is entrepreneurship glorified gambling?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is entrepreneurship glorified gambling?". Your opponent's style: Nassim Taleb

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

You want to call entrepreneurship "glorified gambling"? That's backwards. Gambling is pure randomness, no skill. Entrepreneurship is structured risk-taking with asymmetric payoffs. A founder studies markets, builds systems, compounds knowledge over decades. A gambler pulls a slot machine. One builds antifragility through iteration and learning; the other doesn't. Yes, some fail. But failure teaches what gambling never does. The survivorship bias complaint misses the point entirely, because entrepreneurs who fail often succeed the next time. That's not luck, that's skin in the game creating real feedback loops. Casinos ban card counters. Investors reward repeated founders. Which sounds more like gambling to you?