Business Growth: Learn from Mistakes & Grow

19 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of her YouTube video, Chrissy Myers reflects on how participating in a Goldman Sachs‑run program opened her eyes to the value of hearing diverse business perspectives. She emphasizes that entrepreneurs often pretend to have everything figured out, but true growth comes from openly discussing real challenges—such as payroll, employee management, and sustainability—with peers who face similar issues. By sharing what went wrong and listening to others' mistakes, business owners can identify concrete next steps and continue to scale their ventures.

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Where are you stuck at? Because again, with Goldman Sachs, I realized hearing different perspectives from different businesses could help you in your own business. I completely agree with you. I think being in that program gave me the perspective that as business owners, we have to, we have to not pretend, but we do, we pretend like we have everything figured out all the time. And so it's really nice to talk to other people that are in different businesses, but similar situations of like, oh, you worry about payroll too? You worry about what's going on with your employees? You have this fear about sustainability? Like, let's talk about those things. Tell me how you did it wrong, or let me tell you how I'm doing it wrong so we can figure out what the necessary next steps are to continue to grow.