the secret to life is to deliberately expose urself to higher levels of suffering until lower level suffering becomes irrelevant. Otherwise, u'll spend ur entire life crying over trivial pain, achieving nothing worthy of it. Increase ur threshold.

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The ability to build anything has come with a critical lesson: Engineers have really, really bad ideas.

Why are Indian VCs so afraid to take risk and make money? Someone should go to India and take risk and make money. Our story - corememory.com/p/a-new-india…

If your building a startup you should treat every week as an opportunity to launch.

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Less is more

More than 30 buffaloes, worth around ₹25 lakh in total, are tied up in front of this wealthy farmer’s large, luxurious house. Tractors, cars and bikes are parked outside, and the family owns vast amounts of agricultural land. Some wealthy farmers like these earn crores of rupees every month through farming and dairy businesses. Many of these farmers proudly show off their wealth, expensive vehicles and luxurious lifestyles on social media. Yet, agricultural income is generally exempt from income tax in India. Meanwhile, salaried employees earning relatively little every month and small business owners have to pay income tax on their earnings. Income tax should also be imposed on wealthy farmers like these who earn crores every month through farming and dairy businesses.

Most investment dollars go to zero Most founder equity goes to zero America produces the most important companies because of this awesome risk-taking — this is why we win! This is obvious and well known by all parties involved, and it’s called the power law And 99% of the time, VC-backed founders never put any personal capital at risk — just their time and typically a more modest salary (but in a hot market founders sometimes go for higher pay, and boards will approve) No story here, just nonsense

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Tony Xu of @DoorDash on getting rejected by investors, competing against rivals with thousands of times more capital, and how founders can tell conviction from delusion: "I had over 100 rejections in a span of over 1,000 days where the company almost constantly ran out of money... I couldn't raise a dime, and we were running out of capital." "Companies like Amazon or Uber were in the space who had way more capital than we had. Hundreds of times, maybe thousands of times of capital deployed versus the amount that we raised. So then the question becomes, well, how are you gonna win this cash-burning machine?" "This is where you as the founder have to finely tune that line between delusion and knowing that you have something that others don't understand. What are the customers telling you?" "We the founders did deliveries for almost virtually every day the first three years of the company's life... And so we had strong points of view on each side of our marketplace that could explain what was happening in the numbers." "When you have one set of facts, which is your customers, you have another set of facts, what are called opinions and perceptions, you gotta trust the facts. That's ultimately what kept us going." @t_xu w/ @speedrun GP @andrewchen