Trust Your Gut Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

What this video covers

Several experiences as an entrepreneur, including firing a team during COVID and trusting his gut feeling. He also talks about problem-solving and influencing industry regulations.

Transcript

What I would tell my younger self is believe your instinct. >> And let's say you're able to stop that younger self. That younger dog that is coming out of that building with the excitement, with the uncertainty of what the next chapter is going to be and and and you're able to give that younger dog one piece of advice before launching a business. What would that be and why given what you know now? >> The instincts are there, but some sometimes we we try to muffle it. Uh we try not to listen to it actively, right? We try to find signs that our instincts are wrong. Um and what I would tell my younger self is believe your instincts. Uh somehow I think we human beings are exposed to so much more data that we process uh and we our algorithm are able to capture very subtle signs that we can describe, but we're still processing them and it's super valuable.

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