Yea and if it were my parents, you’ll get an awkward look and their minds will surely read “what is this boy talking about tori olorun”, if you were to explain it like that
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I’m sure you can explain the analogy further.
I’m building a company that is likely to fail but if it doesn’t, I’ll be smiling to the bank and a little bit famous (In some circles).
If your parents don’t get it. It is your fault.
LMAO! 
Honestly, its really tough to explain, especially when they are not IT savvy. The only explanation they will understand is if their monthly bank alerts from you increase exponentially.
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Remember you’re not explaining your startup, you’re explaining what you’re doing with your life.
Your parents don’t need to be tech-savvy to understand that.
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The only explanation that makes sense is a healthy bank account. Everything else na story.
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You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. The side-eye from parents alone is enough ginger to succeed.
Even with a fat account balance, if there are no testimonials from happy clients, parents will still be on your neck. Try my dad, a retired Prof., you’ll know that it’s not just by driving ZDX.
I guess that’s next on the hierarchy of needs. Parents first want you to succeed (preferably within legal limits). After that, they can nitpick on the level of prestige.
As long as they’re not still paying your way though, one shouldn’t be too concerned about what they think…beyond a polite assurance that you know what you’re doing.
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I show them this 
Nice EDIT 
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Udeme are you still doing your that your computer whatever, that what is i am termed by my dad, or Who starts an enterprise after finishing school, do you know that a company fails? that what the response i got when i told him i just registered an enterprise. or Udeme is where your profit from your enterprise. 
but my mum is the opposite infact she is my seed investor
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Or better still, let them watch you on Live TV talking talking about what you do!
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I was speaking about it with my partner last night and it turned out we’ve been having the same problem explaining to our parents what exactly is it we do
Simple just tell them you do Yahoo Yahoo. End of Discussion.
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I have always been divergent in my ways. My parents know they can’t convince me to do everything they want.
So my mum be like “have you finished building that game?”
The game I told her I was building since 2011.
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Haha. I quit a really good job before this “startup nonsense” and my parents still haven’t recovered from it. They have good moments (when I appear in the papers) but still. “This is not a job, my friend” . I have been cajoled to go back to school, manage the family farm…anything but this “nonsense”.
Funny thing is, my mum is in tech. I showed her Linda’s house and she laughed. She was like “that girl’s just sleeping with the right person and lying to you all”
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Give this guy a bottle of Heineken. Lmao.
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Hmmm My mom’s given up on asking. Now she just prays that “whatever” I’m doing works out.
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If I were you, I’d call them for a one-time (I understand you, I am with you, I support you) talk. Ask their supports, blessings and prayers. Then give them a time that fit with your short-term goal, probably the two next milestone you plan with your startup and work towards that. With this, you’ll need to push yourself harder. They’ll see this and even if I didn’t pan out in the end… Well you’d have to sit them down and talk again. It’s business, nothing personal. 
-D
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