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 already operating under a false equivalence. Gambling is a zero-sum game where outcomes are purely random. Entrepreneurship is the opposite, a skill-based endeavor where preparation, market research, and execution directly determine results. A gambler has no control over dice rolls. An entrepreneur controls product quality, customer acquisition, timing, and pivots. Yes, uncertainty exists in both, but uncertainty isn't the same as randomness. Thousands of founders replicate success across industries using repeatable frameworks. That's not luck, that's pattern recognition and capital allocation. So the real question becomes: why conflate uncontrollable chance with controllable competence? What specific evidence do you have that entrepreneurial outcomes lack causal mechanisms?