Know What You Don't

What this short covers

The entrepreneurial journey through the lens of Peter Relan, founder of YouWeb Incubator and an early investor in Discord. It emphasizes the importance of knowing what not to do, founder-market fit, and the balance between confidence and humility in entrepreneurship.

Transcript

No entrepreneur can tell you that when they've started a business or the company that they really understand it all. Just know that there's stuff you don't know and really be open to learning it. It's very difficult to thread the needle between the confidence of an entrepreneur who says, "Yeah, I I know what I'm doing." And simultaneously have a personality of a little bit of paranoia and a little bit of I I don't really know what I don't know. How could I? Right? Because I my brain doesn't understand yet. uh you know at that age in my 30s I didn't know what I know today. I just have to know that I don't know that stuff because it keeps you simultaneously your confidence if you're a entrepreneur will get you to a certain point but that humility will allow you to learn and adjust and hone in hone your skills as you go along. I would I would say that's the number one thing I have to offer

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