founder's mentality

the teams best positioned to endure a bold journey are those in which the benefits from the sensation of progress outweigh the costs of working amidst uncertainty, anonymity, and anxiety. if progress is a sufficient reward, you can be losing for a long time and still win.

James Dyson on solving problems:

“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”

The importance of getting your problem statement right first time founders often conflate the macro problem with the micro problem I see startups who say that their problem statements are; - we would need six globes to cover our emissions - under representation of X in Y -… Show more

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they ... See more

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