I tell the fable: you can swim, you're at the beach surfing and diving and splashing around. A big ship goes by, full of passengers, leaning over the rail. They're yelling something at you. Paddling over you hear "Get out of the water! Its wet in there! You're getting soaked! I hear there can be sharks! Maybe it'll rain or something!"

You try to tell them "It's ok, I can swim. If it rains I can go back on the beach for a while. There aren't any sharks here, at least not now. "

But they don't listen, they sail on.

See what I did there? The corporate employees can only see the risks, and greatly overestimate the danger. The swimmers (entrepreneurs) can't really convey how normal it is to them, to be swimming in those waters, to actually enjoy it.

This conversation happens a lot, where someone comfortable in their career can't conceive of jumping overboard and trying anything else. There's not a lot you can say, coming from such different points of view.