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First time founder vs 5th time founder

Contrasts first-time founders, who guard their idea with NDAs and expect straight-line growth, against fifth-time founders, who bet on team and one strategic advantage while expecting most of their own projections to be wrong.

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Key takeaways

  • First time founder asks you to sign an NDA before they tell you their business idea cuz they think it's valuable.
  • Fifth time founder has projections and says, "Most of these are probably not true and I have no idea what's going to happen." First time founder thinks they're going to win on their business model and the idea that they have.
  • Fifth time founder is going to focus on one strategic advantage and many different ways to reinforce that one advantage.
  • First time founder thinks it's absolutely guaranteed to work and there's no way they don't become zillionaires.

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  1. 0:00
    Abschnitt 1 First time founder versus fifth time founder.
  2. 0:41
    Abschnitt 2 First time founder thinks it's absolutely guaranteed to work and there's no way they don't become zillionaires.

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0:00First time founder versus fifth time founder. First time founder asks you to sign an NDA before they tell you their business idea cuz they think it's valuable. Fifth time founder is like begging you to just like hear every single secret and why it's actually going to work because they know how much work it's going to be and how long it's going to take. First time founders thinks that their projection is just going to go up into the right every single year. Fifth time founder has projections and says, "Most of these are probably not true and I have no idea what's going to happen." First time founder thinks they're going to win on their business model and the idea that they have. Fifth time founder knows they're going to win off of their team and the fact they're going to be able to figure it out. First time founder is going to talk about all these different ways that this thing can win. Fifth time founder is going to focus on one strategic advantage and many different ways to reinforce that one advantage.

0:41First time founder thinks it's absolutely guaranteed to work and there's no way they don't become zillionaires. Fifth time founder hopes for the best and then [music] just only commits to sticking with it for an extended period of time. The good news is whether you're first time founder or fifth time founder, the process of scaling a business from zero to 500 in head count is actually the same and we've looked at it across a zillion industries. And if you want our scaling road map personalized to your business for free, [music] just comment map, it's all yours.