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If I were brave enough to *really* speak my mind to job applicants weighing the risks vs. rewards of moving from a later to an earlier stage company like ours (I'm not), I would tell them, "if you have doubts, you definitely shouldn't do it". Only 1% of venture-backed early-stage startups meaningfully survive, let alone thrive, into the late stages. To have a shot at being in this 1%, the team collectively has to be: * Top X% in grit, and * Top X% in perseverance, and * Top X% in creativity, and * Top X% in speed, and * Top X% in listening, learning and adapting, and * Top X% in managing chaos, and * Top X% in storytelling, and.... These are not "Or"s. These are "And"s. All of them are needed. And this list goes on and on. And it still may not be sufficient in the end. I'm not glorifying or celebrating this at all. It doesn't feel positive or natural or sustainable to be this way, many times to yourself and most of the time to your loved ones. But it is unfortunately necessary. You can't "want to become" this kind of a person- no one in their right minds should ever want this. You're certainly not paid enough to want to try and become this person. You either are this person, or you aren't. If you aren't this person, there is just too much risk for you to worry about and plan for. If you are this person, the biggest guaranteed reward of working at a company at this stage is that you will find yourself surrounded by a high density of (perpetually unhappy) weirdos like you.
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5mo
Wow, what an incredibly insightful perspective! 🌟 Your honesty about the realities of early-stage startups is refreshingly candid. What do you think is the one key trait that most often differentiates the 1% that thrive from the others?
🚨New $43k FTC fine per UGC ad effective Oct 2024 | 👩🏽💻Founder @ SwayID | 🥇Hyper-competitive public speaker | 👩🏽🏫Tough loving mentor to teens.
6moAfter one too many punches to the face, now I am as *literal* as I possibly can be in giving very clear direct warnings, *literally* encouraging prospects to run for the hills. A quote recently “Working at this company feels like what I imagine checking one’s self into Azkaban would be like. Startups at this stage — and this company is no exception — are for the massochistic. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”