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Bob Moesta: belief

23 Feb 2025 Lenny's Podcast How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, author of "Job Moves”)

“Part of it is to realize as a founder, you have to do a lot of different things. And so part of it is I think self-awareness is one of the biggest assets you're going to have.”

— Bob Moesta

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Bob Moesta
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belief
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23 Feb 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Okay. I want to touch on two more things before I let you go that I think are going to be helpful to a lot of people. One is being a founder, the other is just getting into alignment with what you're doing in life. So from the perspective being a founder, you told me that people actually can use this framework we've been talking about to decide if they should even be founders. What is your advice there? Part of it is to realize as a founder, you have to do a lot of different things. And so part of it is I think self-awareness is one of the biggest assets you're going to have. And to know what you you're good at, to know what you suck at, it's also going to tell you about the team. You need to build around you. And so to realize at some point, there's a lot of people who say they want to be a founder, but what I would tell you is when you start to realize what you're good at, what's your strengths, what do you suck at, what are your energy drains? And then go talk to a couple of founders, you'll start to realize how to shape for you to be a founder and whether for you, you decided I'm on my own, I'm going to do this myself, and I can hire people on contracting, but I want no employees. And so you start to realize how do you want to shape this thing based on who you are? And you took the time to do that. But most people, they have this notion of being a founder, but they don't know what founder they want to be. And what I would tell you is that there are a whole bunch of different kinds of founders and that you should self awareness and knowing energy drivers and drains and the reason why you want to be a founder become paramount to actually your success. And so the advice there is look at your energy drivers and drains and also talk to founders, the interview prototype interviews to understand what it actually is and make sure you actually want to be doing that.…

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