A short spoken advice segment by James Sinclair for startup founders distinguishing 'running fast' from being sloppy. Sinclair argues running fast means making intelligent, data-informed decisions quickly, iterating, lowering burn, and controlling feedback cycles, while warning against careless shortcuts that damage long-term foundations.
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Startup founders. Do not confuse running fast with being sloppy. Running fast means making intelligent decisions quickly. Running fast means making intelligent decisions that are going to impact your future intelligently with some data and some extra thought. Running fast means lowering your burn because it's just less days to get stuff done. Running fast means iterating quickly and controlling your clock speed and getting feedback and re releasing. Running fast means everything you can do to cut the intelligent corners that make sense to your business. Running fast does not mean be sloppy, allow typos, have a crappy looking product or website taking a oh eff it, it will be fine, I'll fix it later attitude or doing things that will have monumental impacts for you down the line if you don't, if you don't build this solid foundation for you to grow. I think there's just, it's a very fine line. You know, sometimes people like, oh well, you know, it's just going so fast. Don't go slower. Some people are not meant to go fast and that's okay as well. For some people it's better to be patient and slow and go up the right mountain than to be fast and go up the wrong one. Good luck.