Startup Wisdom

Studying the world's best founders and sharing what I learn.

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Sam Altman: how to be successful

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"Happiness is what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something."

- Naval Ravikant

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Elon Musk on what courage actually is:

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Steve Jobs on how life really works:

[gabriel @gabriel1]

learning for the sake of learning is fake

humanity have some brain poison mindset "oh are you working on X now? i thought you studied thing Y"

any finance, lawyer, programmer, etc learned 98% of skills at their jobs. the only hard part is getting the job. the world is yours

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@jackbutcher Jeff Bezos: "People who are right a lot change their minds a lot."

Stubbornness is overrated.

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@justinskycak This reminds me of Paul Graham's point that ambitious people get pulled onto conventional paths almost by default.

The longer you wait, the harder it becomes to take big swings.

Obligations compound too.

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Peter Thiel on why companies fail:

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“The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting.”

— Charlie Munger

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@blakeaburge Spot on

I’m the most overwhelmed when I have a million things to do and I think about those things rather than doing them

Take action and that stress starts to drop off fast

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@justinskycak It’s why developing high agency is such a strong signal for someone’s level of success

The average person gives into those natural roadblocks for too often

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@calvinchen There's a time and season for grinding, but it doesn't yield much when done blindly

Agree that more and more intentionality is needed especially with AI

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Paul Graham on how to find startup ideas:

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Fish where the fish are

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@vanschneider The game is now distribute as you build

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“I was 44 years old when I decided to go into the Wal-Mart business.”

- Sam Walton

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@readswithravi This reminds me of Kobe’s quote:

“If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.”

The difference was that he trusted his preparation more than his fear.

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Elon Musk on facing criticism from his heroes:

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@F_Compounders Thanks for sharing 🤝

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@fin465 The gap between "someone should build this" and "I built this" has never been smaller

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@edsgoode @paulg This is incredible. Amazing example of literally creating the life you want

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@CAronitpereira Nearly every extraordinary outcome looks irresponsible to people optimizing for average outcomes.

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Peter Thiel on why you can't get hung up on failure:

[signüll @signulll]

most ppl’s refusal to risk humiliation is their original downfall.

genius is indistinguishable from delusion / being a moron until the outcome arrives.

the funniest part is that when it all works, everyone retrofits the narrative to make it look inevitable.

& when it fails, they call it what they were always going to call it. stupid.

the line between idiocy & insight is fine as hell.