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id: "quote-unemployed-entrepreneur"
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tags: ["culture", "career"]
related: ["concept-unemployed-entrepreneur"]
speaker: "Grant Cardone"
speakers: ["Grant Cardone"]
sources: ["robinhood"]
sourceVaultSlug: "cardone-bhatt-robinhood-aetherflux-2026Jun25"
originDay: 10
---
# "Entrepreneur Was Used for the Unemployed"

> "Being an entrepreneur back then was not necessarily like high status… that word was used for the unemployed, period."

— [[entity-grant-cardone]]

## Context

Cardone and [[entity-baiju-bhatt]] agree on the historical stigma attached to entrepreneurship before the massive success of the modern Silicon Valley tech boom. Conceptual home: [[concept-unemployed-entrepreneur]].