Five lessons I’ve learned from almost 20 years in startups:
1. When important people tell you something that is not true - you don’t have to believe them.
2. Being successful doesn’t default make you a polymath.
3. It’s easier for rich/successful/important people to lie (and believe their own lies) cause few are motivated to tell them the truth to their faces.
4. Faith, grit, and honestly defeat money all the time.
5. It’s rare you are forced to give up on your startup. It’s more common that you convince yourself you’ve lost (when in all honestly, the odds of success didn’t change much between your start date and your end date).
And a bonus one: your reputation is not what people say to your face - it’s what people say behind your back.
@yx3io your fast food diet dips your intelligence via slowed thinking and neuroinflammation. It hijacks your brain's reward system making you crave instant gratification and kills long term thinking. Worsens cognitive flexibility. All very bad for ROI.
The only other Nigerian I know who builds things for fun, like @FourEyedWiz, is @ThisGokeBoySef. Damilare should turn these projects into things worth millions of dollars, as Goke has learned to do. Building, because you can, is the right mindset to have when creating innovation.