Serial founders…

What’s the biggest misconception you had the first time around about building a business?

And what do you think future you would say your current biggest misconception is?

Operator turned investor. Work in TradFi. Exploring the future of social investing @crossroads.  🟪

That it would work, and funding a business on credit cards was a totally ok idea.

Na, my dumbass. Not huge debt, like 10k. GitHub and Airbnb were funded by binders full of credit cards. So I thought I was being conservative.

2nd lesson, focus on team over product, especially on first startups. Find people ur happy spending 16hour days with

Yikes. Sorry to hear that. Did someone suggest that route?