{"id":8017,"date":"2025-06-19T21:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:39:51","slug":"hedge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/hedge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are risk averse, it is not for you. Most startups succeed because, from the early days, the founders, team, and investors all took a plunge. They could have failed too. It&#8217;s a hedge and going against the odds that drives the crazy ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same applies to relationships, people fall in love and live happily going against social dictates of caste, nationality, age, skin color, and ethnicity. It&#8217;s like riding against the tide with everyone unaccepting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our life is limited and we have every moment to live. What matters is building and living those moments at own without caring about the world. It is a risk worth taking for oneself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Ford had listened to others, he would have built a better. Bullock cart, not a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many things happen in life because we take a plunge, hedge our bets, or go all in, knowing the outcome might not be in our favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are risk averse, it is not for you. Most startups succeed because, from the early days, the founders, team, and investors all took a plunge. They could have failed too. It&#8217;s a hedge and going against the odds that drives the crazy ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same applies to relationships, people fall in love and live happily going against social dictates of caste, nationality, age, skin color, and ethnicity. It&#8217;s like riding against the tide with everyone unaccepting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our life is limited and we have every moment to live. What matters is building and living those moments at own without caring about the world. It is a risk worth taking for oneself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Ford had listened to others, he would have built a better. Bullock cart, not a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are risk averse, it is not for you. Most startups succeed because, from the early days, the founders, team, and investors all took a plunge. They could have failed too. It&#8217;s a hedge and going against the odds that drives the crazy ones. The same applies to relationships, people fall in love and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/hedge-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hedge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}