Solopreneurs. Honestly I wasn’t a big fan of them.
Why?
To me it seemed like solopreneurs mainly had inward focus, i.e. their own income stream and financial freedom. FIRE – financial independence, retire early. Shouldn’t entrepreneurship be all about making the world a better place and solving humanity’s problems? Solopreneurs didn’t seem to care about the world, they seemed to care only about themselves.
Also some solopreneurs were too hard at self-promoting or evangelizing the concept, with clickbait-y headlines (“This guy built a 6 figure business with nothing but a newsletter”.. as if that was easy?)
But now I understand solopreneurs better.
If income can be automated, people can be liberated from their daily grind. Sure, some will use the extra time for goofing around or traveling or whatever. But there are some people who will use the extra time to do the “real work”, the cause-based work that’s all about fixing the world’s problems and making the world a better place – the very essence of entrepreneurship.
In other words, solopreneurship may not be the same as entrepreneurship, but solopreneurship can lead to the best form of entrepreneurship. To me, that’s the most promising potential of successful solopreneurship.