entrepreneur

“Support is, is often, I think, looked at in technology companies and software companies as this tech technology support, but rather when you're talking to entrepreneurs, in many cases, first time entrepreneurs, Often what they need is they just need a voice in…”

“And I do think the secret of some of the most You know, people who seem super prescient, like they can just, you know, read the future amazing at investing in stocks, or they're incredible entrepreneurs, they just can see opportunities or whatever it is. I eve…”

“I've actually over the last, since COVID basically have been spending way more of my time with the people I grew up with who are not entrepreneurs and increasingly spending more and more of my time with those people and less and less time with entrepreneurs an…”

“Increasingly it's like you have your friends kind of have to be entrepreneurs. It's not like universally true, but they just like get you in a way that other people do not. And there is this mutual understanding. And again, like I'm making these weird analogie…”

“Three percent of the general population has some form of mood disorder, most commonly bipolar disorder. We think that index is seven to one in entrepreneurs. So we'd be talking about one in five”

“And by the way, the valuations get more realistic too. And I think that's a good thing for entrepreneurs in the long run, although they don't view it as such in real time.”

“Every time you raise more money, your success chances go down, not up. That's the big aha, is that every time you move the goalpost, You're the chances of you actually having a meaningful outcome go from, you know, 20% to 10% to five percent to one percent to …”

“And one of the ways that you can fix this cognitive bias is by focusing, if you are going to consume information on the primary sources, so that your intuition, your instincts are reacting to the same information That these people like Kevin Rose are also reac…”

“What a lot of people who are starting out don't know is that it actually gets worse the more successful you become because you start to feel that you're sort of at the table with some of these amazing people. And so a lot of entrepreneurs, the more traction th…”

“And I think entrepreneurs hate that advice of like, it only exists for as long as you make it exist. And then like, once you stop trying, it goes away.”

“It's easy to start as an entrepreneur. And your business, you serve the business, right? Cause that's what happens when you're trying to get off the ground. And it's easy to forget as the business grows that ultimately the business needs to switch to serving y…”

“In my opinion, creators Done well done in a way that is professional. You have to be an entrepreneur and it's always going to be a minority of the population that is an entrepreneur. If you don't have it in you. I'm not going to try and convince you that you d…”

“In terms of like trends we're noticing is all of these entrepreneurs, they get to the top. They've sold their thing. They've accomplished their mission, their North star, whatever. And then they're like yeah, I just want to go make content now. I want to build…”

“You know, the, okay, the other one that gets me is the person who goes, I made all this revenue only working one hour a day. And I'm like, nobody does that.”

“He became a category of one and he rejected kind of like the main way or he got kicked out or failed trying to go into an industry from the main way and kind of built it up for himself. I think that is a lesson that basically every entrepreneur listening to th…”

“I think it's not writers that do that. I think it's entrepreneurial people who do that. And then they are just like, and I'm just going to write to fulfill on the demand. But I think the people who are actually talented at writing almost never think about this”

“I always think the goal for any entrepreneur starting out is to make a hundred to 200 K a year. After that, everything is upside and gravy, but that gives you the launch pad with which to launch the good businesses. So you need the mediocre business first usua…”

“By having a portfolio of businesses and having a diversified set of things that you built through a holdco, you can avoid some of the risk that normal entrepreneurs have. And that's where one of the strategies and one of the things I like about holdcoing is yo…”

“Like for me, I think that when you do hold going, you really craft a world for your business where it serves you in terms of how you want to be living here every day.”

“Being an entrepreneur is a safer job than actually having a job. And I really, I mean, obviously you need to have like some good foundations, but I do think there's some truth to that because I don't feel at risk of losing income right now because I know that …”

“I believe millions of people who wouldn't be entrepreneurs are going to be entrepreneurs.”

“When I meet other entrepreneurs, the biggest sign for me that they're going to move very slowly is too much preparation, and I think these tools are so good You can go straight into a project with them.”