A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.
3 Phases of an ambitious new undertaking:
1. It doesn't work yet.
2. It starts to work, but no one else realizes yet.
3. Everyone knows it works.
The second phase is when you're the happiest, but you don't realize that till a few years into the third.
Timeless advice for founders. "If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I believe starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down -- your willingness to jump is your most valuable asset as an entrepreneur.