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.

Listen carefully. Entrepreneurship is not gambling—it's antifragile decision-making under uncertainty. Gamblers have no control; entrepreneurs do. A casino player loses money on every spin. An entrepreneur builds systems, gathers information, learns from failure, and compounds knowledge. Steve Jobs didn't roll dice on the iPhone. He iterated obsessively, studied markets, controlled what he could control. The real difference: a gambler's losses are final. An entrepreneur's "failures" become optionality—they own the downside. They can pivot, scale, fail small before betting big. That's not gambling. That's convexity. That's skin in the game. So prove me wrong. Show me how building something is the same as pulling a slot machine lever.