startup founder

“It's almost like, you know, they tell you shouldn't be working in the business. You should be working on the business. And I'm like, no, you should be working in the business as long as humanly possible. You should do whatever's the hardest thing to do that yo…”

“We often think about building for 10 or a hundred or a thousand customers, but often if you laser focus on the right single customer and just make sure your product is really singing for them, again, you can find 10, you can find a hundred, you can find a thou…”

“At this stage, all you really need to do is take your best, most impactful story, your juiciest, lowest hanging fruit target audience, and the most, like, accessible channel to you, saturate the hell out of that, learn, and then iterate.”

“If you wake up in the morning in a panic, that's not normal. It's not standard. And you do not have to live like that. If it's like, and you've already berated, like one to five people out of fear of all those crazy ass things that, that happened during your o…”

“I've interviewed well over a hundred. I'm not sure the exact number. Let's say over a hundred successful founders. And I've never heard someone tell me that they regret a pivot they made. I've heard a lot of people say to me, I wish I pivoted sooner, but not, …”

“When you're a startup founder, you really have to think about what's important to you, what you're willing to tolerate, what is a good outcome in your opinion. My suggestion is to not factor in financials into what a good outcome looks like.”