Knowing when and how to turn created into captured value is one of the arts of being an entrepreneur
For entrepreneurs with an eye for counterintuitive solutions, intractable problems and insurmountable adversity can be a crucible for creating and capturing a lot of value
His strategy was to start small but end big
A fundamental problem for the entrepreneur, a problem exacerbated for broker-entrepreneurs, but ubiquitous to some extent, is the fairly significant gap in time between when the entrepreneur perceives value, succeeds in creating it, and finally benefits from it personally
Notes from the book, Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value by Daniel Isenberg