A founder describes launching a profitable business that still felt like a personal failure because he rushed into it without real planning. He compares starting a venture to a rebound relationship: you need to think through what you actually want before jumping to the next thing.
My habit is to always be doing something because I'm obsessive, you know, obsessive about entrepreneurship, about building things. So I jumped into another business that basically like it did, it still made money, but compared to, you know, what I'm used to, it like crashed and burned in my personal feelings. And there's a few reasons for that, you know, didn't think it through, just tried to jump to the next thing. I thought that, you know, You know, I was trying to rush it because, as you know, like a new business venture is a bit like, it's a bit like a new marriage, right? Like you have to really see all the angles and see if you're gonna be happy.
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