Bennett: Side projects can prevent founder burnout on primary ventures
Landon Bennett · Startup Acquisition Stories with Landon Bennett Founder of Userfeed · Nov 15, 2021 · at 15:33
Landon Bennett reflects on the counterintuitive benefits of running a bootstrapped side business while maintaining a primary company.
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“I do think it, in some ways, it helped us to you know, not be quite as burnt out on, like, one thing, right? It kind of, it reinvigorated us to work on the older thing.”
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