Brown: Founding a business brings more sustained pressure than professional sports
Tim Brown · Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger · Jun 10, 2019 · at 1:01:07
Tim Brown, co-founder of Allbirds and former professional soccer player, reflects on the 24/7 psychological pressure of entrepreneurship compared to competing in professional athletics.
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“It's like when you start something, this thing embeds six inches in your brain, and you don't shut it off, and it's a voice that's there, 24 seven all the time, and you're constantly thinking about it, and I, you know, I retired from sport, and I, That, that had its pressurized moments, and getting out in front of, ah, lots of people at times, and playing sport and, ah, but this is, in some ways, greater, more sustained pressure, and it's a very, very difficult thing to do”
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