Julien Smith
12 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2022 by Julien Smith · across every show →
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Jun 30, 2022
Julien Smith: Only start businesses around your lifelong personal themes
“What are the things that I cared about today at my age, but that when I was 20, I still cared about. So those are the through lines. And I went through them and there's not a lot of them. And I said, those are the things, probably the only things that I can st…”
Jun 30, 2022 neutral
Jun 30, 2022 neutral
Julien Smith made millions online in his twenties doing 'nothing'
“Previous to our generation, you couldn't have like some 20 year old kid that's like, yeah, I made a couple million dollars on online, kind of doing nothing. And then I went on and did some other thing, but I was one of those people.”
Jun 30, 2022
Julien Smith: Founders only get about five shots to build something major
“One of the things you realize when you start a company Is you kind of only have a shot, a couple of shots, if it's going to work well. And if you, it is going to work well, like you've had, for example, Alexis O'Hanian on this show, it's like, you don't have l…”
Jun 30, 2022 positive
Gary Vaynerchuk was the first angel investor in Breather
“I take the call from Gary, and he goes something like, I don't have time to advise, because I was just like, I was like, well, he even, like, does he really know me that well? Is he, and he's like, yeah, Julian has been around a super long time. Yeah, I'll def…”
Jun 30, 2022 positive
Smith: Acknowledging startup challenges builds credibility and prevents founder anxiety
“Now what I do is, is I say, here's the things that are going well, here's the things we need to work on. And I think that, that, that, that understanding that there's still something to work on. First of all, it gives an impression to me that Of me that people…”
Jun 30, 2022 positive
Julien Smith: Non-tech friends prevent founders tying self-worth to startup performance
“These early longstanding friends of mine that I've had a really long time and that probably are the people that keep me grounded because otherwise my identity would have been too attached to, I run a startup. Oh My God. I'm, you know, like I'm the second comin…”
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Jun 30, 2022
Julien Smith: Stop idolizing hyper-successful founders as moral paragons
“And so I think if we like, we separate completely, and I know it's different, very difficult to do that. We separate the acts of success and the things that they have built completely from the person. That way we can be like, that's super cool that you built P…”
Jun 30, 2022
Smith: Building outside tech hubs lowers costs but requires immense resilience
“The city itself is not telling you something, but the ethos of that city is saying things to you. And where we come from, the city is just like, yeah, hang out. Like everything's cool. You're going to be all right. You don't need to work that hard. And so it m…”
Jun 30, 2022 positive
Julien Smith: Non-founders cannot truly understand an entrepreneur's experience
“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…”