Founders

I’m contemplating leaving a cushy W2 job to take a serious run at something I’ve been envisioning for a decade, and is now technologically possible. 

Convince me not to.

Healthcare investor by day, web3/AI tinkerer by night. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /theitinerant

You mean, convince you to? 😜

Send it!

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I seriously want to hear all the reasons to not do it

https://warpcast.com/benersing/0xdac6f669

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🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make beautiful, functional, and ethically made candles at humankind.place

Ok, for me, I personally feel like I’m less present with my family, friends, and partner. There are exceptional founders who are great at delegating time and context switching between founder mode and husband/parent mode but I am not one of them. This is a skill that I am still developing and you may need to develop too.

It is particularly painful because when you start a company, it’s all schlep work for the first 2-3 years with shit revenue and you don’t have as much feedback or conviction in yourself. It feels like I’m sacrificing family time so that I can build conviction for myself in the future. I am one year into building my company, and I have already lost time with my partner and family. I still don’t know if things will work out financially for humankind. 

As long as you are comfortable developing the above skill and dealing with that uncertainty, it will be a good decision. But on my deathbed, I bet I would trade $10m in cash for another year w my family/partner.