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Two entrepreneurs discuss why chasing the glamorous startup dream—Lamborghinis, high-rise offices—leaves you empty. One realized the image wasn't the point. The real win is a team you actually like building something together, not the symbols.

Two entrepreneurs discuss why chasing the glamorous startup dream—Lamborghinis, high-rise offices—leaves you empty. One realized the image wasn't the point. The real win is a team you actually like building something together, not the symbols.
I think when you're young, when you're hungry, when you see other people doing things, it looks super glamorous. You want to do it too. You get out there, but eventually you learn that it doesn't fulfill you and it doesn't fill what you were looking for. And the problem is most people, they want this lifestyle and they chase it. Most people never actually get it. And then the people who get it eventually, like myself, realize, oh wait, that wasn't what it was all about. Yeah. But you either knew that inherently or learned that early on.
Yeah, I think I picked it up. There's also like, I think it's twofold too of like what they think. One is they definitely don't think on a long time horizon. Like, especially imagine you're 18 or even like my age, how many more like decades in business do I have? You know what I mean? Like, a lot. You really need to like zoom out and think on a longer time horizon. And two, even like coming here thinking I don't want my end-all be-all, the lifestyle, like a Lambo and a high-rise. It's like, I would love to have a big office that has a ping pong table, it's got a dog wandering around, having a bunch of people in the same building with me, building a company that we all have fun doing. I think this seems like a lot more cool and a lot more fulfilling.

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