Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (host Matan Hazanov) about handling rejection and failure when building a business. The guest, Miles Nadal, is presented as an experienced entrepreneur who normalizes and validates that rejection and difficulty raising money are normal parts of entrepreneurship; the core message: building a business and fundraising is persistently hard and requires acceptance of that reality.
You probably know this from your own experience, obviously, that building anything worthwhile, it's not a straight line. There's a lot of. It's always a struggle, like, how does someone stay positive, like, when they're facing rejection and failure constantly.
So, first of all, it's validating and normalizing rejection and failure. Right. We had a chance to speak with Miles Nadal. Miles Nadal, in case you go, you can Google him. He's very rich, he's an amazing entrepreneur right out of here in Toronto. And I had a chance to speak with Miles on it. And one of the students asked from the audience, like, I'm trying to build a business. It's very hard to raise money. Like, what do I do? And Miles is like, I'm trying to build a business and I'm trying to raise money. It's very hard for me to do. And he's basically saying that, like, it's always going to be hard. Right? Building business and getting money to do your business is not easy work.
