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Storytime: We Burned $140 Million Learning What Not to Do in a Startup (with James Beshara)

The Quest Pod with Justin Kan

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Don't Tie Your Identity Up With Portfolio Theory

Don't tie your identity up with your start investors talk about portfolio theory, where they make multiple bets in multiple spaces to weigh out the just the risk scenarios of start ups. We can often encourage founders to have basically the exact opposite, investment of their entire life and identity and ego into their start up. That type of thinking is what's going to get you burned out and make you quit. When you share something really difficult that you're going through, everybody's adults. People love to be brought into the fold. And i didn't do a good enough job of that with tilt, with you and other amazing founder invest around the table.

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