Brief spoken excerpt (monologue) by Matthew Kelly advising startup founders not to apologize for being obsessive. The speaker argues that founder "obsession" or intensity is normative and valuable in startups, that top hires share this drive or can be attracted to it, and that founders should not settle for less commitment from themselves or their teams.
It's like, no, you're not the problem. Like, it's a fucking startup. Like, the best people that I've hired are people that think that way and love the game. It's not like, oh, fucking working all the time. It's because they want to be there. So, yeah, don't apologize for being an obsessive, probably on the spectrum founder, because I think most founders are like that. And that's how things are built through, like, founder intensity at the end of the day. And you can attract people that aren't necessarily founders but still want to be part of that. And I don't think you should tolerate less because you don't have to.
