Nader Khalil: commitment

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…It’ll always stick with you. Yeah. Yeah. I, you know, in your startup, everything’s existential, right? Like we’ve, we’ve run out of money. We were like, on the risk of, of losing payroll, we’ve had to contract our team because we l ran outta money. And so like, um, because of that you’re really always forcing yourself to I to like understand the root cause of everything. If you get a date, if you get a timeline, you know exactly why that date or timeline is there. You’re, you’re pushing every boundary and like, you’re not just say, you’re not just accepting like a, a no. Just because. And so as you start to introduce more layers, as you start to become a much larger organization, SOL is is essentially like what is the physics, right? The speed of light moves at a certain speed. So if flight’s moving some slower, then you know something’s in the way. So before trying to like layer reality back in of like, why can’t this be delivered at some date? Let’s just understand the physics. What is the theoretical limit to like, uh, how fast this can go? And then start to tell me why. ‘cause otherwise people will start telling you why something can’t be done. But actually I think any great leader’s goal is just to create urgency. Yeah. There’s an infinite create compelling events, right?…

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