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Risk-taking requires accepting blowups

Successful innovation requires three things—being adventurous, having iterative feedback loops to process information, and accepting that taking risks means blowing things up—and America has failed by accumulating more referees, lawyers, and regulators than risk-takers, unlike the risk-taking immigrants who built the country.

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Speaker

Walter Isaacson

Evidence Quote

now I think we have more referees than we have risk-takers, more lawyers and regulators and others saying, you can’t do that, that’s too risky than people willing to innovate

Source

Walter IsaacsonLex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:32:08 AM

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