founder's mentality
insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck
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founder's mentality
build things you want for yourself vs. just thinking about traditional ‘factory’ VC
- Momentum is a moat . As an optimistic entrepreneur, chief product officer focused on innovation, and especially as a leader of M&A for years, this is a lesson I have learned the hard way more times than I care to admit. When a product has escape velocity, it doesn’t even need to be the best product on the market to continue winning. This pains me
Scott Belsky • Reprogramming Humanity’s Primal Instincts & What We Learn From A Future “History of Tech” Class
"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
Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.
pick the person who wants it most, not the most experienced
Fast iteration can make up for a lot; it’s usually ok to be wrong if you iterate quickly. Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.
“The trick is,” film executive Tom Rothman says, “from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.”