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 intellectually lazy. Gamblers have no edge, no skill, no information advantage. Entrepreneurs do. They study markets, build systems, iterate relentlessly. A poker player loses everything on a bad hand. An entrepreneur learns from failure and compounds that knowledge into the next venture. The real distinction is *optionality with skin in the game*. You can fail small, survive, and win big. That's asymmetric payoff, not gambling. Casinos exist because the math favors the house. Startups exist because founders see something invisible to others and bet on themselves to execute it. So tell me: where's the randomness if you control the variables?