Founder Legends Are Less Fun When You Are Living Them

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss the myths behind founder’s success stories. Whenever we hear a story of somebody else’s win most likely we find it inspiring, right? And after hearing this zero to hero story we then decide that we want to be like them someday. But are you sure about that? And are you really willing to go through the pain that they had to live through just to be where they are now?

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What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 04:00 The myths of success stories
• 08:27 It’s not a fun story if you were to live it
• 10:40 “We didn’t see it coming, it just happened!”
• 12:09 You don’t know where you are in the arc
• 13:50 Is your story really contiguous?
• 15:01 The misses gets ignored just because it became a success
• 17:11 Stop comparing
• 19:26 We don’t acknowledge the pain
• 23:49 You can’t recreate these stories
• 25:22 Understand the pain, not just the success