You need to be delusional if you want to be successful because your goals shape what you perceive. You won't notice the rare opportunity or life path if your goal isn't so big that others think you are crazy.
Please fail more in life. In college I lost 41 hackathons, failed 15 interviews and my startup was an epic flop.
During that time I pitched to VPs at Rakuten, scientists from NTRO, engineers from Microsoft and Google and even the government.
And today I work out of New York
one way you can instantly tell apart people who have built something from those who don’t is that they understand what a big deal small wins are
when we got our first 1k MRR I was ecstatic. I texted a series b founder friend who had tens of millions in ARR and he was somehow