entrepreneur

“People always ask me for my advice to entrepreneurs, and I say, don't do it. Don't do it. And they're sort of puzzled by that, and my view is that if you take my advice, you never would have made it anyway, ok? But, if you shrug it off, and you go, yeah, what …”

“So there was a study, ah, ah, by Columbia Business School of 22 entrepreneurs who all exited their businesses and made ten million or more personally from it. So in other words, success. 21 out of the 22 were depressed after having that success.”

“Most entrepreneurs are control freaks. We like to make a lot of decisions, control the boundaries of those decisions, and your greatest strength really as an entrepreneur is that you're a control freak. But that turns into kryptonite and a scale up. Your great…”

“Never ever read a book from someone who hasn't been, or written by someone who hasn't been an entrepreneur before. Because an entrepreneur can be actually precisely Understood by another entrepreneur.”

“One of the things I think, honestly, we've not done a great job is being there for those, you know, those Companies really, those entrepreneurs, as they're growing up and building, whether it's specific to Klaviyo or just like adjacent to us. So we're really p…”

“The enterprise has set up entire organizations and processes to evaluate stuff. They're always evaluating stuff. The average entrepreneur has zero processes to evaluate anything. They're literally just trying to keep it going every day.”