Dharmesh Shah compares startups and parenthood: both start with passion, hit a wall of doubt around year two, and require you to keep going even when you want to quit. Experience slowly replaces cluelessness with competence in both.
What does growing a human and growing a company have in common? Both involve a moment of passion followed by years of hard work. Neither one will make money for the first couple of years. It's not as easy as your friends make it look on Instagram. Around year 2, you decide to never ever do this ever again. And finally, there will be days you want to sell them, but you shouldn't. The overall lesson here is that you start out being completely clueless— startup, kid, same thing— and as time goes, you become slightly less clueless over time.
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