Startups are always traumatic. Uncertainty and risk give founders, who are conditioned to seek out pain, the limbic system shock to feel alive This is why so many founders have high ACE scoreshttps://twitter.com/ericpeng_/status/1129534802720219136 …
You may have gone too far with this one. In my experience founders wish they could just build stuff and people would use it and pay them. I agree trauma is inevitable, but I think to most founders it's merely exhausting.
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I think you might start the company because of something traumatic that happened to you. But you certainly don't hope for trauma while solving for it.
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Agreed. You could say that life is always trauma, things are hard sometimes. That's not necessarily trauma
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Maybe with the part about seeking out pain for the thrill part. But there certainly seems to be a pattern that good founders seems to have gone through a lot more adversity than average
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My ACE score is 0.5
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I agree with Garry. If founders wanted to merely build, they could get a product or engineering job somewhere else. To be a founder for a long time, you have to tolerate long periods of high stress.
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Definitely not a hard rule, not *everyone* has this pathology, and that's a good thing for those who don't.
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There's a distinction between "startups are always traumatic" vs "startups are always started by traumatic founders" vs "startups are often started by traumatic founders" (I lean toward the last one). I've found that starting companies has been a form of therapy for me.
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That may be true of the pure engineering founders (but I'm skeptical). For those trying to build a business from scratch, I agree with Gary, trauma is typical.
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Trauma? I suspect for many founders (including myself) doing a startup in the first place is a opportunity born out of privilege. Not having tens of thousands of customers (or whatever challenge your company has) does not feel traumatic.
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You’ll see.
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