Employee -> Founder

When you transition from being an employee to being a founder,

You need to completely rewire your internal performance gauges.

As an employee, you're rewarded for meeting or exceeding expectations.

You can’t mess up.

Your job is to impress your higher-ups.

As a founder, the rules flip.

Your #1 goal is to iterate as fast as humanly possible.

Getting it right every time is completely unrealistic.

Your job is to do as many things wrong, as quickly as possible, in hopes of finding the one thing that works.

And forget about being impressive or cool-

In fact, you’ll look foolish in front of most people.

Many people believe that entrepreneurship is a step down.

And guess what?

You're going to have to sell to them.

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But that’s just the price of admission.

Want to be a good founder?

Forget how to be a good employee.

Focus on getting good at making bets

And then doubling down before others catch up.

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