However, over the past 10 years or so, an entrepreneur has implicitly come to mean someone who creates. A maker.

Interesting. The definition that has taken shape in my head is completely the opposite. “Entrepreneur” only means a “maker” to me in the context of a creating a business for an exit. It holds very little to me in terms of being a creator of products, services, etc. As you can imagine, I don’t consider myself an entrepreneur. I think of myself as a developer. But the main reason for that is the attachment to the “maker” concept.

As Dave and I explored this afternoon, “entrepreneur” and “startup” may be words that have very different meanings to different people.