Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…I wouldn't say anything super surprising. However, a lot of people... So you could do the same thing on Twitter and say, "Hey, AMA, ask me anything in public." The thing is people are not going to ask certain things for a lot of reasons. And maybe the biggest surprise was a lot of people are pretty vulnerable. These are strangers, founders, who DM me saying, "Hey, we have three months runway left, we're running out of money. Here's a situation. What advice do you have?" Or just things that everyone has to wear this unfortunate mask is what I use to describe it, this mask in life and business where everything is going great and you're super confident, there are no problems. You got it all under control. And so the reality is that's not the case. If you peered inside of almost every single company, it probably looks chaotic in different ways. And so I guess maybe the biggest surprise or thing that I value the most is the authenticity of people willing to share some of these vulnerable moments and questions. Awesome. What's interesting about your format is as you were talking, I kind of realized it's very similar to my newsletter format, which I think is part of the reason it worked, is it's based on people asking me a question and then I answer the question. Yeah, it's true.…

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