Do Epic Shit

As a founder, if you won’t show up every single day, despite how you are feeling or how the
startup is doing or what the press is writing about you or your co-founders not working out or
your product failing or your customers shouting,
No one is going to do it for you.
. . .
People would much rather work for a competent asshole than an incompetent nice guy.
. . .

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Entrepreneurship is f**king hard.
The early excitement of building a team, planning a name, launching the first
version will fade away.
And insane details that life has, will begin to emerge.
At that point, there is only one thing that will help.
The stories you tell yourself.
Keep reminding yourself of why you became a founder in the first place.
You wanted to be happy doing it, feel fulfilled being one, or desired peace 
from it.
Or whatever else it was.
Because that is the only thing that matters.
Capability is rarely the question mark in life.
It is always the intent.
No one lacks talent. People are best at what they do. Or they know how to figure it out.
What people lack is intent.
Lack of intent because they don’t like the leader.
Lack of intent because they are not driven.
Lack of intent because they don’t care.
Lack of intent because they are not acknowledged.
Lack of intent because they work for a person not for a larger good.
When people are driven to bring their right intent to the table, they are the first ones to surprise
themselves with their capabilities.
Telling someone they are wrong is never going to convince the person.
Telling someone they don’t see the point is hypocritical.
Telling someone you will never understand is you facing the mirror.
Yes, people do go wrong.
They do not see the point.
Yes, they do not even understand.
None of this is false.
However, entrepreneurship and building a team is ninety per cent understanding and ten per cent
execution.
Ninety per cent empathy with ten per cent autocracy.
And hundred per cent patience.