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 because you conflate risk with randomness. That's the fatal flaw. Gamblers bet on outcomes they can't influence. Entrepreneurs systematically reduce uncertainty through market research, unit economics, and iterative testing. A poker player has zero control over the next card. A founder controls product, pricing, timing, and pivot decisions. Yes, both involve risk, but one is skill-based competition and the other is pure chance. The fact that some startups fail doesn't make entrepreneurship gambling any more than surgery is gambling because some patients die. The difference isn't the outcome—it's the mechanism. Can you actually defend why skill-driven decision-making under uncertainty equals dice rolling?