Good Bad Never Extreme

What this short covers

Kelly Littlepage and Stephen Johnson secured over $80M in funding from top-tier investors for their company, OneChronos. They achieved this by finding long-term, high-conviction investors who understood their vision and the extensive time horizon required.

Transcript

I I have a similar answer but a different flavor which is basically the um the good stuff that happens to you is never as good as you think it's going to be and the same is true for the bad stuff. So when you think about perseverance, um really really don't celebrate the wins for too long in the sense that you should already be thinking about what needs to happen, what you can do more of, uh what you can do better, and when something doesn't go your way, uh it's really not as bad as it seems at the time. Sometimes whether that's a an investor conversation that didn't go the way you thought it would, customer conversation, anything. It's just you have to have a very level mindset about this to to build a company over 10

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