Newsletter Get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box every day. Submit Privacy Policy Sign in Shop News Culture Books Business & Tech Humor Cartoons Magazine Video Podcasts Archive Goings On Subscribe Subscribe Culture Desk By Hannah Rosefield July 22, 2019 Alex Honnold, perhaps the world’s most famous living climber, seemed to have something to teach entrepreneurs, though what those teachings were, exactly, was not clear. Photograph by Mike Blake / Reuters When Alex Honnold , the celebrated climber and the star of the documentary “ Free Solo ,” took to the wall at my local rock-climbing gym, Brooklyn Boulders Somerville, in Massachusetts, I was in a room nearby with a dozen or so others, attending a workshop called “Time, Money & Joy.” When the workshop ended, the room filled with people telling us what we had missed. Several of us darted into the gym, hoping to witness a repeat pe...