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Ryan Hoover: uncertainty

7 Aug 2022 Lenny's Podcast How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund

“I don't know how to articulate that feeling, but that flutter in your stomach that you wake up with in the morning of just anxiety and stress and worry.”

— Ryan Hoover

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Ryan Hoover
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7 Aug 2022
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Lenny's Podcast

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I don't know how to articulate that feeling, but that flutter in your stomach that you wake up with in the morning of just anxiety and stress and worry. Being a CEO or a founder makes it slightly harder in some ways because you still have to put on this mask. You have to put on the space of confidence externally and internally as well where people need to trust you. You also don't want to subject them to the same anxiety that you're feeling and be 100% transparent. Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt, which you already know. He's also a former product manager, which I did not know. Currently, he's a full-time investor with his fund the Weekend Fund. He's also an author of a bunch of great blog posts and an actual book called Hooked. He's also really good on Twitter and in my opinion, a very special human being. Ryan Hoover, welcome to the podcast.…

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