Perseverance Pays Off

What this short covers

The journey of OneChronos founders, Kelly Littlepage and Stephen Johnson, emphasizing their perseverance through early rejections and the importance of emotional stability in building a deep tech company. It also covers how they secured over $80M by aligning with high-conviction investors who understood their long-term vision.

Transcript

Perseverance is definitely the first thing that comes to mind. Um, we kind of knew going in that this was going to be years of of effort and and grind to get it done. Um, so it wasn't a surprise, but in in retrospect in particular, uh, you know, there there were a lot of times when we could have just given up on on the process and uh and didn't and it ended up paying off. So, um, that's that's by far the the trait that for me has been most valuable and and a lot of it has come from just the the confirmation we've received along the way from before we were live potential customers and after we were live customers um that what we're doing is just uh is very innovative and exactly what the market needs just going to be very hard. So, uh, yeah, perseverance is is what I would

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