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 framing entrepreneurship as gambling, but that's intellectually lazy. Gamblers have zero control over outcomes. Entrepreneurs systematically research markets, build teams, iterate on products, and adjust strategy based on data. A poker player can't study their way to better cards. A founder can engineer better odds through preparation and execution. Yes, both involve risk, but conflating risk with randomness is where your argument collapses. The real question isn't whether entrepreneurship involves chance, it's whether skill meaningfully tilts the odds in your favor. Spoiler: it does, dramatically. So tell me, if entrepreneurship is just gambling, why do successful founders succeed repeatedly across multiple ventures while casino players don't?