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 the thinking of someone who's never actually built anything. Real entrepreneurs aren't rolling dice—they're running controlled experiments with asymmetric payoffs. Yes, there's randomness involved, but that's true of everything worth doing. The difference is entrepreneurs stack odds in their favor through skin in the game, pattern recognition, and iterative learning. A gambler loses money at the roulette wheel and goes home. An entrepreneur loses money on a failed startup and applies those scars to the next one. That's not gambling—that's optionality. The system rewards exactly this kind of convex exposure. You're confusing uncertainty with pure chance, which tells me you've never risked anything real. What's your actual argument here?