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“90% of startups fail - here's the brutal reality nobody talks about”
seem reckless. So how how did you come to terms with that risk, and how should others It is a huge risk. And, it put you under financial stress and mental stress, because as you said, you go from sta
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personal lesson4:40 – 5:19
...couple of failed startups are essentially the best kind of startup school. You know? The y Combinator startup school, the university startup course that you may be thinking about, you know, they may have their value, but actually building and running
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from transcript13:24 – 14:44
...startups fail is fear. Fear of going too fast, fear of raising too much money and not doing not knowing what to do with it,
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from transcript16:23 – 17:33
...about big startup exits, you know, people becoming billionaires, companies getting acquired, going IPO, etcetera. But I don't think that's most of them is not that. That's just the ones we talk about. You never hear about the scores of other ones tha
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from transcript3:00 – 4:00
“Why most startups fail at operations and how to avoid the trap”
the engineering and operations team, and there's a huge amount of work and collaboration coordination that goes in across our teams. So from the very beginning, we've tried. And I would say this is is
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tactical advice19:15 – 20:14
...failed. So I unlike the Facebook founders, I went back to school and finished my degree. If you've ever watched one of those movies about entrepreneurship where, like, the plucky protagonist goes back to the people who said it would never work and th
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from transcript10:33 – 12:30
...founder, but that's the narrow case. That's like the your expected value is Low. Is very low. It's it's I mean, this is maybe a little bit off kilter, but it's a question of what is high status for you. Right? It used to be that, you know, we we kind
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from transcript53:52 – 55:00
...founders of startups that might eventually fail, they're probably optimistic by nature. Yeah. And so they're probably sat there thinking they might get a Hail Mary at the very last minute, and then it doesn't materialize, and it's too late, and they'
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from transcript53:13 – 54:17
“Why space startups can lose 18 months of runway from one failed experiment”
...in a startup, basically, with a failed experiment. Right? With with Musk, he could be launching
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market insight46:10 – 46:43
...not be a startup founder. This is a terrible way to make money. There's so much better, more rational,
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from transcript53:10 – 54:16
...start a startup, I have no problem with you dropping out. I think it's a great idea. You'll learn more from starting a company than from working on a startup. To work at a startup, I probably wouldn't unless it was something e, you're Zuckerberg's ro
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from transcript1:09:45 – 1:10:45
...startup. So I actually moved into my startup office the same day as I moved into my college halls of residence, same day. And I was living this double life where I was on my BlackBerry Pearl in lectures, and then I would run to the office and try and
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from transcript16:30 – 17:47
...startups succeed and fail. I'd love to begin by you outlining sort of what, if anything, is shared in common across those 483. So are there certain features that you're always looking for and sort of how your process works, and then we'll get into th
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from transcript7:26 – 8:47
But that's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. You know, you're you're able to move on and, and and learn what you really need in a cofounder instead. And you've been wildly successful with this. It's worked very well. Yeah. We've we've built compani
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from transcript2:57 – 4:13
...a startup founder. And we're often reminding our audience that, like, we're not we're not a show for you if you are a small business agency, you know, creator. Right? Operator. And so, yes. I I love your answer, which is, you know, there are better w
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from transcript14:14 – 15:24
...Startups are three things. I say this all the time on the show. It's a team that builds a product that delights a customer. You know, and that's what you do all day. It's just a little loop. And if you enjoy that loop and you can find joy in it, do i
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from transcript19:25 – 20:40
I I could do the three hour version pretty easily, so you'll have to keep me on task on time. But the the shortest version I can tell, unfortunately, it still starts before I was born. And this will make sense in a second, I promise. But my grandmoth
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from transcript1:27 – 2:36
...startup, I also wanna just say gut check. Do not do this for wealth. Do not do this if you're just trying to make some money because there's smarter ways to do it. Do this because you lose sleep at night because this thing doesn't exist. And you want
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from transcript46:30 – 47:35
...out a startup org and, you know, everyone likes to throw around. We're a startup within a big company. If, like, the leader of that doesn't have p and l, you're not a startup within a big company. I think that is the important piece, which is, like,
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from transcript7:18 – 8:31
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