What’s the hardest moment you’ve had building your business?

10 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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In this YouTube interview, several entrepreneurs (Speakers A‑F) recount the toughest moments they faced while building their companies. Speaker A describes the difficulty of taking the first step, enduring four years to achieve product‑market fit, and juggling physically demanding kitchen work with night‑time desk tasks. Speaker B highlights the strain of the current economic downturn and repeated app‑store rejections. Speaker C points to financial instability and a challenging fundraising environment. Speaker D reveals the pressure of 80‑hour work weeks while raising two children and the race against a 2.5‑week launch deadline that coincided with a supply‑chain snag when a shipment was stuck on a boat. Speaker E discusses the struggle of convincing investors to back a novel concept—investing in professional athletes rather than traditional equities. Speaker F explains the pivot forced by pandemic lockdowns, including making psychedelics care safe and legal and shifting from an in‑person to an online model. Across all speakers, common themes emerge: personal sacrifice, financial uncertainty, operational hurdles, and the need to adapt rapidly to external shocks.

What's the hardest moment you've had with the business? Taking the first step and just actually going to do it. Staying in the ring for 4 years to find product-market fit.
The economic downturn that we are experiencing today.
Putting everything on hold in my life and not making any money to make sure that I can make this as amazing a business as possible.
Financial instability. Fundraising to date. The environment's tough right now.
Working in the kitchen, the hard physical labor, and then going back at night and finishing all the desk work.
Working 80-hour weeks while being a mom to 2. Managing my team.
Definitely in just selling people on this idea that you can actually invest in pro athletes as opposed to traditional equities.
Only giving ourselves 2.5 weeks from launch to fill our first program. When we sold out of product, everything was stuck on a boat and we had nothing to sell.
When our app kept getting rejected for reasons I couldn't figure out.
Deciding how to make psychedelics care safe and legal for everyone. Pandemic lockdowns forced us to completely pivot our business model from an in-person model to an online model.
When COVID happened, the international border shut down and we had to restart our entire manufacturing process from scratch. Mentally dealing with COVID Good.