I was thinking about what I wanted to write in this newsletter and instead of offering happy crappy advice on pitch decks and telling you to crush it,

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2021-06-17 19:30:02

I was thinking about what I wanted to write in this newsletter and instead of offering happy crappy advice on pitch decks and telling you to crush it, I decided I’d go a different route.

First, if you’re suicidal, WhatsApp me at +16468270591 or call the Suicide Prevention Hotline at +1800-273-8255 or, if you’re not in the States, visit this site.

I was speaking to a founder recently who tried to express so much by saying very little. He was embarrassed, in fact, at what he was trying to do. He was trying to tell me he was hurting, he was scared, and he was frustrated.

Listen: you’re trying to build something. You’re dedicated to that idea. You’re doing it for a very personal reason. Maybe you want to share an idea. Maybe you don’t want to work in a cubicle. Maybe you want to pass something on to your kids. The thing that matters is that you are, as that old shitty poster says, the “man (or woman) in the arena.”

Great. You’re in the arena. You’re building. You will, at one point in the near future, be miraculously happy and successful. How that is defined is unclear right now and no one, not even prognosticators like me can tell you. But listen: at some point, you’ll wake up and say “Yeah, this is great. This is what I wanted.” I’m certain on that point.

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