Whats the difference between an Entrepreneur and a Founder?

What's the difference between an entrepreneur and a founder? 

Since starting ASC in 2017, I have always cringed at the performed intensity of Entrepreneurship. The language around becoming an entrepreneur is melodramatic at best, and violent at its worst. We’ve taught entrepreneurs that “genius” or “talent” excuses any behavior. You’re told the only way to success is to adopt a manic, frantic energy: there is nowhere to live but on the razor sharp edge. As long as you stay in a mindset of scarcity, anything goes. Any action you take is valid so long as you can say you “moved fast and broke things.” We watch cutthroat narratives where anti-hero figures cut corners, lie, and put people in danger all for the sake of making more money.

Even when those figures do show empathy, or human traits, it's often in a bid to manipulate the market or leverage a particular outcome. So yeah, I’ve never felt comfortable identifying as an “Entrepreneur” and a lot of you have heard me say so. I believe mornings are sacred, quiet, springboards for the day. I believe it is always a good time to nap. I believe it is always worthwhile to be kind, to help someone out just for the sake of helping, and to

In truth, there is one key tenet separating Founders from Entrepreneurs: A Calling.
ASC began because I felt a calling to provide a marketing firm for Small Business owners that wouldn't prey on their weaknesses or hold them hostage. Your worth as a person is not tied to how many leads you bring in, how many sales you make, or how many contacts you can upload to an email list. I believe everyone is born with inherent worth that does not need to be earned, with incredible gifts that do not need to be taught. So my calling with ASC is to help inherently worthy people share their gifts and benefit the world around them even in small, every day ways.

I do not thrive in a mindset of scarcity and I do not believe anything goes. When you have a calling, you are often overwhelmed not by fear, but by the hope and abundance of where that calling can lead.

If you feel called to beautiful work that uplifts humanity in some small way, you might be a founder. If you feel you have a responsibility to lead by example - to treat your mind, body, and efforts with the respect they deserve, you might be a founder