I learned is that the founder’s life isn’t for most. If founding is not how you’re wired but you feel you should, that's often just society and/or others imposing the idea on you that founding is the apex of achievement. That’s a bullshit narrative that we should stop. 8/x
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So, if you’re thinking about making the leap then think: Why are you *really* doing it? Is it really the life for you? Or is it someone else’s idea of the life you should be living? Whatever the answer is, it’s OK to be you and do what you’re put on the earth to do. /fin
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Replying to @mgirdley
Super thought-provoking thread and a topic I've also thought a fair bit about (thought with much less experience than you). Let's see if I can reply to your thread with a thread of my own on the topic. I didn't prewrite this, so bear with me. 1/x
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @mgirdley
First, I don't think very many people idolize Bezos or Gates (or Zuckerberg, the lizard man, haha). It's only guys like you and me who are possibly hard-wired (or have convinced ourselves we are) for entrepreneurship. Buffett is different, but he's less entrepreneurial 2/x
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @mgirdley
A lot more people want to be Kim Kardashian, Lebron James, or Katrina Lake than want to be Jeff Bezos and it's not even close, imho (I have no data). So, white men? Meh, who cares? Let's move on. I say let the people who are trying to become entrepreneurs for the wrong reasons
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @mgirdley
try and fail. They're young. They'll bounce back. And in this day in age, it might even help them land a job at Google. They're usually in their 20s and they're playing with someone else's money. THey're not 45 year olds with a house and a family betting the farm, usually. 4/x
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @mgirdley
I have no idea how much traits are learned or inborn, but I do know that you only need 3 things to be successful as an entrepreneur: 1. Motor (THIS IS A MUST) 2. Brains (you need much less than you think) 3. Flexibility (Too many brains often => not enough flexibility)
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The smartest people I know use their intelligence to be "right" rather than right. Folks who put their ego aside and hunt for the actual truth are the ones I'd bet on.
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Totally. And in my humble opinion this is a skill that can be practiced. Just admit your wrong over and over and eventually it means little to you. That's where you want ot be.
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You can tell these people (I've found) in the questions they ask in meeting with them. They try to suck everything out of your head to make the business better. The other group just spends the whole time arguing with you or doesn't ask any questions.
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Have you ever come across someone who argued and then ultimately succeeded?
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @orrdavid
I can only recall once. But that's a skewed data point since so few companies really do well out of the ones we look/looked at as VCs.
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I argued a lot early. It was painful for me to take constructive criticism then. Still hurts but not as bad!
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