A founder reflects on past failures and realizes extreme pressure overwhelms them rather than motivates them. They're risk-averse and ask how to build a business that doesn't require thriving under stress. The answer: structure your venture around your actual temperament, not the one you wish you had.
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I looked at the lessons and I looked at the things that we did right and there were some and I looked at the mistakes that we made and there were many and what could I learn from it and one of the big things that I learned from it that I think I take with me even now is that I don't— I think that there are different types of people in the world and there are people who are more risk-averse which I put myself in that category like I'm somewhat risk-averse And then there's people that are, you know, can be under an extreme amount of pressure and just operate and kind of like put it to the side and do the work. And that's not me. Like when I was under that extreme amount of pressure, I was crippling under it. Like I wasn't that like superhero that's like under all this pressure and just figures it out and just ignores it and keeps moving forward. Like I was crippled by that pressure. So it made me think, how can I build a business that is not going to put me in a position like that again?