John Collison: Not an Overnight Success
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John Collison: Not an Overnight Success
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
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Brian Armstrong explains how he built Coinbase on nights and weekends while working at Airbnb
Brian first advises those who are currently employed to not build your project on company hours or on your company laptop:
“If you build it on company time or on the company hardware, the company... See more
Startup Archivex.comNaval reflects on how it took 13 years after starting his first startup before eventually succeeding with AngelList (valued at $4.1B in 2022).
“Entrepreneurial ventures fail all the time. Most of my companies failed. I actually started seven companies, and I’ve launched about 40 or 50 projects over my career. And AngelList is the first one that I... See more
“Entrepreneurial ventures fail all the time. Most of my companies failed. I actually started seven companies, and I’ve launched about 40 or 50 projects over my career. And AngelList is the first one that I... See more
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Everything takes time. Some startups explode from day one and some prodigies play piano at three, but those are rare—and often fleeting. Most sharp rises end in sharper declines. If you've set your mind to something, then why ever quit? If you're not dead, then you're still in the game.
When you talk to entrepreneurs who quit on their dreams, even... See more
When you talk to entrepreneurs who quit on their dreams, even... See more
I've given up 2 times in 6 years — but I'm still here.
- 2017: I left my GF, country, and friends after spending 1 year building an app with 0 users — thinking I was Mark Zuckerberg. I started smoking again.
- 2020: After 4 years as an entrepreneur, 0 successful projects, lived with my... See more