This video features Alex Haro, co-founder of Life360 and Hubble Network, sharing his entrepreneurial journey, including surviving the startup grind.
This video features Alex Haro, co-founder of Life360 and Hubble Network, sharing his entrepreneurial journey, including surviving the startup grind, building successful companies, and the psychological aspects of navigating challenges like near-death experiences and fundraising hurdles.
And maybe back in time to the moment that you were coming out of school, you know, thinking about conquering the world, launching your own thing, and you're able to give a one piece of advice, you know, to that younger Alex before launching a company. What would that be and why, given what you know now? >> Yeah, so I have two answers for you. Um So, but the other half, if I wanted to actually give myself real advice, uh the other half of it would be that when you are in the middle of building a business, there are all these events, good and bad, where you just put so much stock into them, where you think like, "Oh, if I just go raise this money, or if I get this deal done, or if I get this customer, or if we if we prove this milestone, like we've made it. Like, the company will be successful and like we can call it a day and like celebrate and it will like, you know, in some sense
be be over." Uh and and similarly, like that deal doesn't close, or an investor that, you know, was going to offer you a term sheet says, "No." Or your biggest customer turns out and and you get kicked in the gut and it feels like the worst pain of your life. All of those moments are temporary. None of them are as good or as bad as you think they'll be in your own head. And like ultimately, this is a grind and the highs and the lows, you know, hopefully there's more highs than the lows, but sometimes there's a hell of a lot more lows before there's any highs. And it's it's all survivable. At the end of the day, you you get so wrapped up in your business, you are like so focused on what feels like either, you know, the success or death knoll that you're climbing. Um but ultimately, just keep building and eventually, you know, you make enough good decisions and you fix enough bad mistakes
and uh you build something interesting. And so I I think the advice is like, "Don't worry, buddy. You'll get through it even if it doesn't feel like it." >> I love it.