To be a successful founder of a company, you may have to work harder and be better than those around you. This sets you apart from your peers and requires a higher level of commitment and effort.

And it might turn out that if you want to be a founder of a very successful company, you might have to adult harder than the people around you.

In fact, it almost assuredly requires adulting harder than the people around you.

Sometimes I think founders look at us and they're kind of like, well you know my roommates don't do this, so why do I have to?

And it's like well, if your roommates aren't trying to build a billion dollar company, then they don't have to.

But, maybe you need to be better than the people around you to do something extraordinary.

It's yet another thing that distances you from your peers.

And if your whole thing in life is, I'm the same as my peers, and I'm the same as my roommates that have jobs at big tech companies, er.


Speaker 0: And it might turn out that if you want to be a founder of a very successful company, you might have to adult harder than the people around you. In fact, it almost assuredly requires adulting harder than the people around you. Sometimes I think founders look at us and they're kind of like, well you know my roommates don't do this, so why do I have to? And it's like well, if your roommates aren't trying to build a billion dollar company, then they don't have to. But, maybe you need to be better than the people around you to do something extraordinary.

Speaker 1: It's yet another thing that distances you from your peers. And if your whole thing in life is, I'm the same as my peers, and I'm the same as my roommates that have jobs at big tech companies, er.

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Adulting (and running a startup) is hard.