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“Never Quit on a Bad Day”

5 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk from Precursor Ventures advising founders to separate personal identity from the role of founder. The speaker emphasizes that being a founder should not be the totality of one’s identity and reassures first-time founders that if a startup fails they will rediscover themselves and be fine.

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My father. I'm a human being. There are other parts of my personality that are not being the founder, managing partner of this firm. Now, granted, it's a big part of my life and personality now, but it's not the totality. And I think one of the challenges for first time founders is sometimes being the founder of XYZ Company becomes your whole personality and identity. And when you lose that, you've kind of lost yourself. And so I just told somebody this on yesterday before I saw you in New York, I saw you and founder is having a tough time. And I said, well, a couple things. If this startup doesn't work out, you will be fine. You will rediscover who you are separate from being the founder.