Short clip from a Mick Unplugged interview where Bryan Harris discusses the importance of aligning a founder’s personal strengths and identity with the right business role. He contrasts product–market fit with a neglected concept—business–founder fit—and argues that success without alignment can leave founders anxious and unfulfilled.
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I coach three different clients personally that are, you know, in the 20 to $50 million a year range that are names people know. And two of the three are doing exactly what they were built to do. One of the three is not at all. And despite amazing success, happiness, joy, peace, none of that stuff is there. Like, they've crushed the numbers, file the things and hire all the people and fantastic. And like, man, at night, the fear has overwhelmed them in decision making the cause. You're not doing what you were, but you're trying to be a bird and you're a fish. Like, what are you doing? Like, you need to like, find your thing and stay in that line. So now we coach people on both things because one that the other doesn't work. All the peace and purpose in the world, but, like, you don't know how to run a business, you're screwed. If you know how to run a business, but you're doing literally the wrong business, then ain't gonna work either. Like, a lot of people talk about product market fit. The thing that don't talk about is business founder fit. Like, are you the person to actually do that? It's great that you heard me talking about a coaching business, but like, if you're built to be a software engineer and to solve these sets of problems like that, this will never work for you.