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What Is One Way for a Startup Founder to Stay Happy No Matter What

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From the episode: Justin Kan on Vulnerability, Happiness, and Suffering in Startups

As a start-up you want to have a mission you are working towards and trying to accomplish, but you should also remember that achieving the goal is not 100% within your control. You are just one factor, one member of the team, one part of the strategy. You're only a contributor to achieving that goal. And even when you achieve the goal, it is not going to make you happy.

You need to find a way to work without actually wrapping up your entire ego and identity in accomplishing this one goal.

The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Justin Kan on Vulnerability, Happiness, and Suffering in Startups · at 14:19 · ·Transcript

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