Smith: Acknowledging startup challenges builds credibility and prevents founder anxiety
Julien Smith · How To Create Your Own Luck With Julien Smith · Jun 30, 2022 · at 22:47
Julien Smith, founder of Breather and Practice, reflects on shifting from constant public cheerleading during his first startup to balancing wins and weaknesses in his second company.
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“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 are like, oh, he actually knows what he's doing. He's not just like relentlessly trumpeting optimism all the time. And then the second one is I get to then like normalize the fuck ups, which is like, yeah, we don't know this yet. And we don't understand this yet. And we don't understand yet this yet versus saying one thing and believing another and having that. That difference between the outside world and the inside world cause you to like fucking have anxiety attacks or whatever it is.”
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