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Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

CHAPTER

Overcoming a Fear of Failure

I see it all the time, especially in young people who they're using perfectionism as a way to procrastinate because they don't feel competent already yet. I think an important thing for any entrepreneur, but especially it was for me, was to disassociate my own identity from that of the companies. If Woop was having a bad day, I was having a good day. And if Woop was failing, I was failing. Like literally you can be taking great steps to improve as a leader or as a manager or even as a recruiter and certain things will happen that may put your business sideways.

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