founder's mentality

the science of business is scaling, and the art of business is things that don’t scale

When you’re focused on something few others are thinking about, you find yourself constantly making the case to yourself and others that your vision is worth pursuing and worthy of other people’s attention. This ongoing need to justify your work creates a significant emotional overhead.

.@dharmesh on why every founder is fighting the 2nd law of thermodynamics

Being a founder requires constant calibration between arrogance and humility, optimism and pessimism. You need the arrogance to believe that you have something important to say, but the humility to know most people won’t care. You need the optimism to convince yourself and others (employees, investors, customers) to believe in you. But you need... See more

The best founders I know listen to and read EVERYONE, but then they ignore everyone and make up their own mind