The founder is commoditized in the high-risk capital stack.

Thousands sign up for this psychological torture every day and investors put them in shark tanks on TV as entertainment.

Founder #mentalwellness will never be a priority because it isn’t necessary.

Here’s why👇 If one founder burns out there are ten more lined up behind them to take their job.

And don’t think that success will protect you. The investment world is happy to replace even the most successful founders with a seasoned hired operator. In fact they’re salivating for it.

I used to get paid $20k/day to advise early stage #startups. Average revenue growth of the startups I advised was 10x over two years.

I gave the #founders the same advice every time.

Pre-product-market-fit founders should organize their schedules like this.

A short thread 🧵 1) You have lots of great ideas about how your company can make money.

Figure out which ONE is most promising and spend 70% of your time executing on it.

If someone is buying one of your products, learn everything you can about them and find more people like them to buy it.