No one expects a tennis player to become the next Serena without coaching. Why would the next great CEO be any different? Get an executive coach.
1/ Was at a dinner recently with five VCs. All great folks, smart, thoughtful investors. We got to talking about Halo Top and what drove its growth.
1/ As a founder you should spend all of your time on the unique things you can do which no other human on the planet can do. Corollary: You should spend almost no time doing stuff which is already well understood by someone else.
💬 I often get Q’s like these: How did you get your first customers for WIP? How did you grow BetaList’s traffic? Etc. Makers are looking to reverse-engineer success. I see it everywhere. I don’t think it works that way and the answers to those questions are mostly useless. 💥
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