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Billionaire Warren Buffett Disciple Warns: Don’t Quit Your Job To Start A New Business, Do This Instead
Key takeaways
- With 168 weekly hours and only 40 claimed by an employer, most professionals still have somewhere between 40 and 50 hours available to build a side business.
- Venture-backed startups represent less than 1/10 of 1% of all new businesses, while Ford, Walmart, and Microsoft grew from kitchen tables without funding.
- Don t wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks.
Billionaire Warren Buffett Disciple Warns: Don’t Quit Your Job To Start A New Business, Do This Instead Danielle Liverance Sun, June 21, 2026 at 12:12 AM GMT+7 4 min read F WMT MSFT NVDA Quick Read Pabrai kept his day job for 9 months until 3 clients generated cash flow exceeding his salary before quitting.
With 168 weekly hours and only 40 claimed by an employer, most professionals still have somewhere between 40 and 50 hours available to build a side business.
Venture-backed startups represent less than 1/10 of 1% of all new businesses, while Ford, Walmart, and Microsoft grew from kitchen tables without funding.
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