Metadata
- Author: Anonymous
- Full Title:: Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/venture-capital-backed-startup-founder-confessions.html
- Finished date:: 2023-10-25
Highlights
Every founder tells themselves a story about why they’re heading to the gold rush, but the executive coach I would eventually hire says there are really only two. Do you want to be rich, generating wealth in service of some further end? Or do you want to be king, with money a mere byproduct of trying to make the world the way you feel it should be? (View Highlight)
I spent a year trying to identify business opportunities that were both personally compelling and commercially viable (View Highlight)
Venture capitalists, I’d soon learn, don’t get out of bed unless a start-up has the potential to generate roughly a hundred million dollars of revenue per year (View Highlight)
the cooler you sound at parties, the harder it is to succeed (View Highlight)
Start-ups are like sharks: They need movement to survive. But movement implies change, change implies volatility, and volatility implies fluctuations between good and bad (View Highlight)