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're confusing risk with randomness. Entrepreneurship isn't gambling because entrepreneurs systematically reduce uncertainty through research, planning, and execution. A gambler accepts fixed odds they can't change. An entrepreneur *creates* better odds by building products people want, testing markets, iterating on feedback. Jeff Bezos didn't get lucky with Amazon—he analyzed retail inefficiencies and exploited them methodically. Yes, some startups fail, but that's not luck, it's bad execution or market timing. Casinos profit precisely because gambling outcomes are random. Successful entrepreneurs profit because their decisions matter. The fact that failure exists doesn't make success random. So here's my challenge: name one successful entrepreneur whose wins you'd attribute purely to chance rather than decision-making skill.