How I Built This
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
- Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
- Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short t
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The first one is what gives you a right to exist. There is already 40,000 companies doing something like you, and then there's 15 companies doing what sounds exactly like what you're doing, and then there's three other companies that are literally doing exactly what you're doing, at least to the outside eyes. Why don't you just go join them? Wh... See more
The first one is what gives you a right to exist. There is already 40,000 companies doing something like you, and then there's 15 companies doing what sounds exactly like what you're doing, and then there's three other companies that are literally doing exactly what you're doing, at least to the outside eyes. Why don't you just go join them? Wh... See more
