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Entitlement. Isolation. Plans.
Season 2 is here. Andrea kicks things off solo with a look at what she's been hearing from next gens over the past year, across dozens of calls and conversations.
Three patterns keep showing up.
The first is the entitlement myth. Parents and founders worry their kids will feel entitled to the business or the wealth. But when Andrea sits down with next gens, the feelings underneath are almost always shame, guilt, and confusion. Jake Knight put it directly: the next gens he meets don't feel they deserve anything. They don't even know how to talk about it with their friends. When curiosity gets…
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