5harathFounding Growth Lead, Willow Voice

Hardest Part of Being a Founder - Michelle Marceline (Typedream, YC W20)

24 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Michelle Marceline, founder of Typedream, says the hardest part of being a founder is adapting to new problems as the company evolves. Her two previous startups taught her how to build from zero to one, but she's never scaled beyond that stage. Now she's learning 1-N growth for the first time.

The toughest thing for me to do. Let me think about this question. Um, I would say it's like my ability to adapt with different problems.
Hmm.
So I can talk about this one thing. So with the 2 startups I built before, I mean, one didn't even launch because we couldn't get the license. And then the second one, it launched, but we were only working on it for about a year before it was acquired. So we were like, all we knew was how to grow from 0 to 1, but we never knew how to do it from like how to grow a company from 1 to beyond. That is what I'm currently struggling with, with TypeDream. And we