Lenny Rachitsky: preference

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…I totally agree with you. Awesome. Okay, another Halliganism, I don't know if you put it this way, the way I think about it is this idea of, "There's no such thing as a silver bullet, it just takes a lot of lead bullets to get something done. " I think the way you wrote about it is it's always one step forward, two steps back. Talk about your advice there. Yeah, I always thought, incorrectly, that we would have one hire or one investor or one event or one product release that would... I was wrong about this, but it'd be a silver bullet. And the reality inside the HubSpot machine, the way it felt to me, it looks from the outside, over a long time up into the right, and smooth, but inside it was two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one step back. And a lot of times it was a crisis that caused that step back. So, we just didn't have that. The thing about being a founder/CEO is no one, especially when you're in your 20s, there's no one there to rescue you. Your parents aren't going to rescue you, your VC is not going to rescue you, your teacher, your thesis advisor, you're on your own and you got to figure it out. And that hits you when you hit your first crisis, it's on you. You can get some help, but it's on you.…

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