Ryan Hoover: evaluation

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…I totally get that drive to just make sure everything you're putting out and that your company's putting out is top-notch. I have the same feeling and it is hard to let go and just like, that's not perfect, but I'm going to be okay with that. I'll do other things. Yeah, it's really hard. And I think it's a tendency that is, in some ways it's good in that you care so much about the product. As a founder, you care so much about what you're building, you care so much about the details and you need that kind of almost OCD like behavior. However, you also just can't scale yourself, nor are you the best person at everything. So I don't know. With hindsight, I'm like, all right, I should have delegated more. I should have trusted people more. And yeah, there will be mistakes. I make mistakes all the time, but at the end it's going to be way net positive because you kind of have to, just to [inaudible 00:35:59] your company anyway. It's a good segue to a question Harry Stubbings asked that he finds interesting always. What's the most painful lesson that you've learned, but that you're also happy about to have gone through?…

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