And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said I need someone with a vision-

So God made an Entrepreneur…

God said I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, sketch ideas on a whiteboard, work all day in a coffee shop because she can’t afford to rent an office, work on the whiteboard some more, eat some bad pizza then go downtown and stay past midnight at a meetup of likeminded souls-

So God made an Entrepreneur…

God said I need somebody willing to work into the night for a year with a new company, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say maybe next time. I need somebody who can solve a problem no one has ever solved before, make a whole company out of a laptop and a mobile phone; who can create market value out of an idea, a couple of friends and a lot of sleepless nights; who at launch time and funding season will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from keyboard back, will put in another 72 hours-

So God made an Entrepreneur…

God said I need somebody strong enough to throw away 6 months of work when customers don’t adopt a new feature, yet gentle enough to sit and listen to a new employee who wants to quit; who will stop his work early to volunteer at the community food bank. It had to be somebody who’d learn to code on new platforms and not cut corners; somebody to found, launch, iterate, pivot and fundraise and manage and lead and take out the trash and keep the team’s spirits high and replenish the self-esteem and a hard week’s work with a five-mile bike ride home. Somebody who would bring a team together with the tough, strong bonds of sacrifice; who would laugh and then sigh, and reply with smiling eyes when his son says he wants to spend his life doing what dad does-

So God made an Entrepreneur.

To the entrepreneur in all of us.

(This post was inspired by Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” and the 2013 Dodge Super Bowl Ad, I originally wrote it for the great folks at FounderSync, where you will find plenty of real entrepreneurs.)