Founders

Should you listen to Tim Cook type people (clearly competent in tech and extremely well respected, but didn’t get their success from a startup) for startup thoughts and advice?

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Why would i listen to someone type people? Does he have a special keyboard or something?

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What do you view as the dividing line between those topics

Tim Cook is an operator, not a founder. If that's the wheelhouse you need advice in, you could find arguably no better operator than him.

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If you think your startup is going to be as big as apple or face the same problems, then yes

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The canon is that “if you haven’t been through it, you don’t get it”

and I’m trying to figure out where people make the cut off 👀

I don’t see why not. Operations people have insight traditional founders do not.

Great q, Cameron. Seeking advice can be life-changing. 

Before listening to others, though, I'd suggest diving inward first and listening to self. 

Many leaders try to copy what's worked for others without exploring their own values + discipline.

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We also provide crypto education - all primarily for women.

That’s my gut too but it also feels pretty ridiculous to say I couldn’t learn something from Tim Cook

hard no - what startups need to know is polar opposite of what big corp ppl like that understand