Building Strong Relationships as a Founder

If you build strong relationships with your peers and customers, they will defendyour business. You yourself will strengthen the bonds with your antepernoial peers. And where your copycet roads the long term trust, both with their community of customers and the founder community is very much important for building a long term reputation as a founder. It's absolutely fine to feel an emotional response, but it can be positive and affirming, if you choose to frame it as such.