Why I’m an Entrepreneur Who Is Afraid To Fail, and You Should Be Too

Success isn’t about risk tolerance, it’s about risk mitigation

Joe Procopio
4 min readDec 7, 2021

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I’d like to debunk some conventional wisdom about success and failure in business. Namely, this broken circle of logic:

A. Entrepreneurs and business leaders have to take risks in order to succeed.

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Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com