founder's mentality

insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck

Favorite quotes 1/ Every great creator is sharing their DNA and experiences with the world. Some spread it through art, some through music - but for me, it's through product.” 2/ Jay-Z bought a pair of construction Timberland boots from me every weekend. I got to see why these different... See more

Patrick OShaughnessy x.com

sari

Andrew Wilkinson: Building an Empire

Andrew Wilkinson fs.blog

Ilana Ettinger

What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects

NFX nfx.com

Sixian

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

Sahil Lavingia marker.medium.com

sari

How to Find a Co-Founder

Erik Torenberg eriktorenberg.substack.com

King

“The trick is,” film executive Tom Rothman says, “from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.”

—Lynda Barry • Keep your overhead low

alex

Instead of waiting for something to go wrong and then conducting a post-mortem, conduct a “pre-mortem” by imagining it went wrong then using the power of hindsight to deduce the likeliest reason it went wrong.

Gurwinder • 30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)

phoebe

"I see our customers as partners in a big project, not as crops to be harvested. You can’t have a sustainable long-term relationship when you treat your customers as crops.”

-Tobi Lutke

sari

An entrepreneur is a broker between ideas and resources.

alex