"they will take something you know Anonymous arvar 42 said as like gospel and base their entire life philosophy around it yes yes don't do that don't do that all right welcome to dton plus"

"Michael and today we're going to talk about how fast is too fast for moving a startup um I'll start with the story I"

"was talking to a YC company could have been this batch could have been a previous batch yeah let's anonymize it we don't want to probably every batch to be honest common story and a summary of what th..."

"version of this that I see a lot is people the way they start with their company is to cold email a bunch of people on LinkedIn they're like okay we're doing our startup we're going full-time um well ..."

"that if you come from a big company either in product or engineering more often than not you've never solved your own problem like you're working on other people's problems and so I think that your in..."

"you know you talk a little bit about this concept of when people pivot quickly they they they're not building the muscle of building conviction like what talk to us about that you know we have a few d..."

"of like founder personality traits or things you can develop I think a lot of times how good of a programmer you are is one thing how good you are at sales how good you are at fundraising all these th..."

"and so like let's talk about exactly what conviction means I think it doesn't mean believing in things religiously exactly it's more of not letting yourself get blown off course so this happens to us ..."

"think that um I've been trying to unpack hack why do people do this and and more specifically like why do people kind of think logically and rationally in their job and then come to their startup and ..."

"think this is um it's so tricky cuz fear really just everything but I do think this is one of the reasons why um I like the new YC standard deal because I think that before Founders would be like well..."

"down all right so we often encounter these companies and we've talked about this before companies that get into pivot itis right and got a bad case bad case of pivot itis right and I think what's inte..."

"describe that version yeah have you heard the term random walk people like so Random walk is where you use like a random number generator to decide which direction you go and basically when you random..."

"I think that the last point I always like to bring up here is another version of this kind of random walk or email 25 people then pivot is like launch a product that will help no one yep and then pivo..."

"maybe the long story short here is that one it's going to take maybe longer than you think so don't have expectations that screw you up two fear makes you think real bad like don't let fear turn a rea..."