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Too Demoralized and Hyper Intelligent To Start

by Larry Chiang on January 19, 2020

By Larry Chiang
I grew up in a Yale MIT household that was too smart to start. 
The recurring theme in Silicon Valley is “I wanna go viral” when I get myself into YC and get vc approval stamped. No one talks about the elephant-in-the-room: Lack Of distribution 
Lack of “doing things that don’t scale” but have momentum 
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Full on wanting to outsource distribution to a 
– community manager
– sales intern
– business development, hire. 
PROBLEM: saying ‘millionaire’

You’re riddled with societal pressure to fail prior to trying. Or not try!! Or other emo baggage. 

SOLUTION: say “zero pt 6 mill” so you think okay I just over shot my #zeroPt6 million goal and now I’m at 1,000 thousands.

Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang)
PROBLEM: saying ‘millionaire’

You’re riddled with societal pressure to fail prior to trying. Or not try!! Or other emo baggage. 

SOLUTION: say “zero pt 6 mill” so you think okay I just over shot my #zeroPt6 million goal and now I’m at 1,000 thousands.


image2.jpegWhen you say ‘billion’, you’re too baggaged and saddled with emotion. When you say a thousand millions, you think okay I got 180. Just need 820 more


Or something like that

Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang)
Starting means trying to get customer number one on a product you did not make

[or combining API’s together]
#first17steps
#djAPI
#ENGR145 pic.twitter.com/YotUmy0ZgM

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