Survived the #startup apocalypse of ‘23… Keep pushing, don’t quit

Name: Survived the #startup apocalypse of ‘23… Keep pushing, don’t quit
Uploaded: 2024-01-14T05:18:43+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: James Sinclair
Description: A short motivational YouTube talk by James Sinclair addressing startup founders about the difficulties of 2023. The speaker categorizes founders into…

14 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short motivational YouTube talk by James Sinclair addressing startup founders about the difficulties of 2023. The speaker categorizes founders into three groups — veterans who have survived prior downturns and hunkered down, first-time founders who found 2023 unexpectedly hard but survived, and those who performed very well yet still faced fundraising/valuation challenges — and urges listeners to keep working into 2024.

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If you're a startup founder rolling into 2024, 2023 has been one of three things for you. Either you've been through this before, the dot com boom, all the other shit, and you knew what to do. Hunker down and just fucking survive. You've never been through this before, and you were like, wow, this seems harder than anything I've ever done before. And it certainly doesn't seem like the TV shows or the movies, but you survived. Or three, you did gangbusters, you did amazing. But you still didn't get the valuation you wanted. It still wasn't easy to raise funds. So the point about going into2024 is just carry on fucking working.