Emprender es como SURFEAR I Pamela Valdés

23 Jan 2022 · 2 min
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A Spanish-language YouTube interview where Pamela Valdés reflects on how entrepreneurship is like surfing. She recounts severe burnout leading to hospitalization, credits the book "Southwater Buddha" (Spanish: "Surfear la vida") with changing her approach, and explains the surfing metaphor: the long, effortful "remada" (paddling) is the entrepreneurial process while the short rides (catching an investor, joining Y Combinator) are fleeting opportunities that require timing, positioning, and persistence. She stresses strategy, readiness to add an extra stroke, and that continued effort increases the chance of a big payoff; she also quotes a YC partner: "don’t die as a company," and frames success as partly luck (a factor she describes as ranging "from 1 to 1000").

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