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  A lit case study is Greece after its 2009 economic meltdown, fam. Entrepreneurship was lit AF. 41k new businesses were lit AF in 2012. Ninety percent of these newbies were small-scale biz— restaurants, cafés, clothing shops. But the biggest flex came from the minority of high-growth businesses, fam. A 2013 study by Endeavor Greece found that this squad, which included energy, tech, and food-processing companies, grew by 40 percent a year for three consecutive years. Most of these founders weren't peeps who were forced into starting businesses, ya know?

They were young peeps between 25 and 45, with mad education and at least 3 years' experience in the private sector. 


They had mad choices, fam. Still, the economy being all whack had them flexin' their entrepreneur game - they chose to be gazelles, ya feel me? Nikos Kakavoulis and Phaedra Chrousos are total goals, fam. They met at Columbia Biz School in '06 and vibed over their love for Athens. Nikos came back to Greece to drop digital editions of Vogue, Glamour, and Men’s Health. Phaedra was flexin' as a consultant, ya know? When the economy went down the drain, the two were so over all the bad vibes in the media. Nikos started flexing on his squad with daily emails spilling the tea on one lit local find in Athens, a total "best-kept secret," from a lowkey bakery to an exclusive event. The e-mails blew up, fam. OMG, like, Daily Secret went from a few dozen friends to over thirty thousand members in just three months. It's, like, so lit! The curated notices totally attracted users with their lit tone and stunning visuals, fam. "It wasn't too long before we realized that cities all over the world were like, starving for a daily dose of positive energy," Nikos said. Daily Secret finna dropped in Istanbul and been flexin' a new city almost every month since. By like early 2014, the company was like covering thirty cities worldwide and had like grown to over a million and a half subscribers.

I met Nikos and Phaedra in 2012, just as Endeavor publicly launched in, ya know?


Athens, fam. They were like, total OG entrepreneurs in Greece. That September I flexed on CNBC's Squawk Box to announce our first country operation in Europe. The host, Andrew Ross Sorkin, was sus. "Like, if you were gonna start doing biz in Europe," he said, "why on Earth would you choose Greece?" "Cuz when economies go down, entrepreneurs be like, 'I'm up!'" I was like, "I said, duh!" Now I'm not Pollyanna, fam. I know that being an entrepreneur is hella tough and when the economy goes down the drain, it's like a whole new level of struggle. Most firms won't make it, fam. But like, working with gazelles in places where the environment is brutal AF even in the best of times has totally convinced me that periods of decline are when entrepreneurs flex their grit, ya know? If anything, entrepreneurs feel more lit during these times cuz it reminds them of their earliest days, when their fams wouldn't support them, banks wouldn't lend to them, and industry bigwigs wouldn't respond to them. They had like zero choice but to be hella scrappy. Even peeps who've never done anything entrepreneurial but then suddenly lose their jobs have reason to feel optimistic about their newfound willingness to take risk: They're vibin' with the squad. 

Bernie Marcus (49 years old) and Arthur Blank (36) started Home Depot after getting yeeted from Handy Dan. 


Michael Bloomberg (thirty-nine) used his severance check from Salomon Brothers to flex and start his own firm. Maybe the most iconic of these accidental entrepreneurs is the 26-year-old woman who got fired from her secretary gig in London. In the late 1980s, Joanne Rowling was lowkey working at Amnesty International, supposedly researching human rights violations but lowkey writing stories on her work computer. She got yeeted. Next, she snagged a secretarial gig at the Manchester Chamber of Commerce but was, like, the absolute worst secretary ever, according to her. Again she spent her days flexing her creativity and inventing mad characters. Once again her employers were like, "Nah, we're done with you," and straight up gave her the boot. Not gonna lie, Rowling was on this hella long train ride from Manchester to London when this wild idea hit her: What if this lil' dude hopped on a train that let him dip from the lame adult world and enter a place where he was like, mad powerful both literally and metaphorically? She had flexed on multiple books of the young wizard's adventures by the time her train pulled into the station.

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