Lenny Rachitsky: belief

Transcript context

…Just if you hadn't, or if you had gotten a different job. Do you think you would've gotten a different job, stayed there? When I left my job, I was at Airbnb for seven years. I had plan A, start a company again. Plan B, join a startup as their first PM. Plan C, join a big company as a PM. Plan D, advise companies, become a consultant kind of person. Nowhere in that plan was do this crazy thing that I do now. I had a lot of startup ideas. As I was exploring the startup ideas, as you remember, I was just tinkering and prototyping and building stuff. And then on the side I was writing things that I learned and things I wanted to share. You were just like, "Why are you writing? You can't make money on the internet writing. You should be doing this thing that you're good at, startups and building and tech and stuff like that." I'm just like, "I don't know. It seems like there's a pull here, so I'm just going to keep doing this." I don't know if I say things that you're good at. I just said, as a person-…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.