What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of The Crazy Ones. This is Alex, and I am back with a journal style episode of the show.

Today, I want to talk about why the idea of stability in a corporate job is a complete lie. Let's hop into it.

What's up everyone? I'm Alex Lieberman.

Yo, this is Jesse Pooji.

And this is The Crazy Ones.

We're going to get a little bit heady with this episode. It's a little bit less tactical than normal.

But sometimes I think it's worth challenging the assumptions we have about the world.

The things we've always been told to be true. And this is one of those topics.

I believe the idea of stability in corporate America is a complete fallacy.

And I'm going to tell you a quick story to illustrate why.

Before Morning Brew, I worked for a year at Morgan Stanley. And you have to understand this was my dream job.

All of my family worked in finance, my dad did, my mom did, my grandpa did.

I dreamed of working on Wall Street my entire career.

The combination of that with also graduating from college and only having 10,000 email subscribers from Morning Brew and no revenue for the business yet.

I felt a little bit crazy to take the leap of faith into entrepreneurship at that point.

Which now that I think about it, we're going to take a quick detour because I feel like this is a quick lesson in itself.

And we'll get back to the point about corporate stability.

This idea of leap of faith, right? We talk about taking leaps of faith in our lives.

I also think this is an incredibly stupid saying within the world of startups.

Leap of faith encourages a certain risk hungry gut driven mindset.

That's just not realistic for most entrepreneurs.

I can speak from experience. Most of the great founders I know didn't take leaps of faith.

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