Discipline to Avoid the Distractions

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"The best founders are disciplined," he says. "For every ounce of discipline you have, you can probably lose five, ten ounces of intelligence and still outperform" The only solution that's worked for me is just, like, do companies that have such a hard time raising money that it's always a fire drill?"

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