Opinion| Can Sachin Bansal reinvent the financial services wheel?

Are entrepreneurs born or made? Is entrepreneurship addictive? Research suggests that entrepreneurship is more of a craft than an aptitude. For some people, starting and running one venture is enough. Habitual entrepreneurs create multiple ventures over their lifetimes and typically exhibit certain personality traits, such as a high need for achievement, strong belief in their ability to control their destinies, calculated risk-taking, tolerance for ambiguity, and desire for independence.

Among all the virtues, the “ability to control their destinies” is a significant one — if the first venture is usually a folk tale on how serendipity brought everything together, subsequent outings are a more thought-out affair.