May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 26m
English
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Chapter 47. Conclusion
We live in incredible times. The opportunities of entrepreneurship have never been more available than they are today. It was always possible to scrape together a few dollars and make a go of being your own boss—running a fruit stand, reselling merchandise, peddling your handiwork—but never before has there been a worldwide community dedicated to creating world-changing companies and supporting the entrepreneurs who want to build them.
My entrepreneurial career started with Wildseed, someone else’s company. I’ve been running startups on and off ever since, all the way up to Glowforge, my latest company. Despite all that, I still regularly feel like I’m making it up as I go along. I suspect it’s equal parts Impostor Syndrome and the truth.
The hardest part of the CEO job is that nobody really knows the right answers to your questions,1 and you will always wonder if you’ve made the right decisions. The best part of the job is the quiet camaraderie of the tribe of entrepreneurship. Our cofounders, teams, peers—we’re all cheering for each other, exchanging war stories, and sharing advice in the hope that it might help.
So let me end with my hope for this book. The Techstars program has a phrase: “mentor whiplash.” It’s the experience you get from asking one question of three different wise folks who are supposed to help, and getting three different answers—each declaring the other to be utterly foolish and wrong.
With that in mind, I’ve tried to avoid giving ...
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