Yanowitz: Startups never get easier because founders constantly optimize for max pain
Jason Yanowitz · How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company · Sep 28, 2023 · at 35:58
Jason Yanowitz describes the psychological trap of growing a startup, arguing that increasing team size does not reduce operating stress.
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“This idea that it gets easier as you grow, right? That's I think anyone startups are like this weird or being a founder is this weird thing where like, I think what they, you kind of hold constant, the rate at which you can tolerate problems and Everything else kind of becomes this variable that moves and you're always as a founder in this zone of max pain. And whenever you are able to, if you're ever below that threshold of max pain, you take on more stuff.”
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