A founder tells new entrepreneurs that the real payoff from building a business isn't the outcome, it's who you become. He lost everything five years in but kept the skills he'd built, which later led to major success. The work transforms you more than you transform the work.
One of the hardest costs, and this is like what entrepreneurship feels like if I can give it to anyone who's new to this, is the feeling of uncertainty that you don't know if all of the work that you've been spending all of your nights and weekends and off time investing in will ever pay off. And so it's this fear that you're wasting your time. But the reality is that the outcome isn't the thing that you're building. The person you are is the person that you're building, and that continues to work. And so there's a proverb in the Bible. I think it's in all labor there is profit. and you can rephrase that as the work works on you more than you work on it. And so it's about who we become while doing the work more than the outcome from the work itself. Because, like, I lost everything five years into my entrepreneurial journey, but I still had all the skills and beliefs that I had from before that. And then I was able to reapply those and then have a really, you know, big outcome in what we have today.
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