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17 Dec 2020 Acquired Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers
“Who knows how many startups it’s going to take, but you’ll get there as long as you’re learning and you persist. I think the most important thing you can do is figure out how to keep going.”
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…Yeah. Default the life. At one point, I ran a startup weekend in Seattle and Bo Lu, who actually I think went on to do YC with his company Future Advisers and Sequoia funded it. He gave this great talk called You’re Alive as Long as You’re Not Dead. He was like, yeah, a lot of bad things can happen at your company, but as long as you don’t shut it down, you have not failed. Your company is still in the active succeeding. You’re not successful yet, but you’re in the act of succeeding until you call it quits. That’s always stuck with me. Yeah. Even if you do quit a particular company, I’ve quit lots of different companies, but as long as you don’t quit your overall journey, you’re still on that path. You’re still headed to California and you’re going to eventually get there. Who knows how many startups it’s going to take, but you’ll get there as long as you’re learning and you persist. I think the most important thing you can do is figure out how to keep going. All right. The genesis of Indie Hackers. How did that happen?…
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