They Did Not Invent The Industry (A quick reflection for entrepreneurs)

by Agakura Viñas Burihabwa
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If your childhood looked anything like mine, you may have heard this sentence far too often:

“You’re not doing it right.”

Art class. A school project. Creativity. Even curiosity.

You’d be exploring something freely, and someone would appear behind you to correct you, because you were doing it your way.

And without realizing it, you learned to wait for permission.
For the nod.
For the “approved” way.
Eventually, you carried that habit into adulthood.

Then one day, you embarked on the colourful journey of entrepreneurship.

Now entrepreneurship in all its beauty, also has a funny habit of bringing a particular type of person into the picture:

The “Industry Inventors.”

People you’ve never met, heard of or learned from before, who emerge from nowhere to tell you that you’re doing it wrong.
That your voice is too much, your ideas too naïve, your approach too unconventional, your path too different.

And because we were trained to obey confident voices, we stop.
We hand authority to people who never earned it.
We shrink.

But here’s the truth that changed everything for me:

They didn't invent the industry.
Not your craft.
Not mine.

And they certainly weren’t there when we said yes to the calling that placed us on this path.

This memory still sits with me clearly:
Years ago, after a concert, a stranger walked straight up to me and said that if I “truly knew about my art”, I would never have put those composers together in one programme.
I believed them. Because they said it with conviction.
Every piece of warm, genuine feedback I had received from the audience evaporated in seconds.

When I told my teacher, now a dear friend, she looked at me firmly and said:

“In this industry, you must choose very carefully who you listen to.
Many will comment, but very few deserve influence.”

That sentence stayed with me.
And it applies to every industry.

So let me offer you the same:
Trust your trusting.
Trust your knowing.
Trust the mentors you chose-not the nameless critics who appointed themselves to you.

Because your industry is not a fixed doctrine.
It is a living ecosystem, evolving with every person who touches it- including you.

So when you hear:
“Well, this isn’t how we do it.”
You can simply answer:
“Says who?” and “Maybe not until now.”

You didn’t come here to follow someone else’s blueprint.
You came here to expand what’s possible for the people you’re meant to serve.

Do your work your way and from your heart.
The right people-your people, will recognize you immediately.

You’re not following the industry.
You’re shaping it.

I’m Agakura, and I help sensitive women entrepreneurs go from invisible to unmistakable, by coming home to themselves and standing unshakably in their truth in love, life, and legacy.