While I don’t love the harsh tone of the parent post, it’s not wrong. One of the most important skills you would need to succeed as a startup founder is to self

While I don’t love the harsh tone of the parent post, it’s not wrong. One of the most important skills you would need to succeed as a startup founder is to self-teach: the ability to use the resources already available to you (ex: internet search) to seek out information and answers about how to do things you’ve never tried before, and to learn by doing instead of having the knowledge spoon-fed. When you’re the CEO or CTO and your startup has 6 months of runway and a half-finished product and angry investors and 2 unengaged clients and an MIA co-founder, you’ll be the one responsible for figuring out solutions and making decisions. You’ll be the one who knows the subtleties of the situation. You can ask people for advice, but you’ll be the one who has to figure out precisely what advice to ask for and which advice is actually applicable. Most of it won’t be. And the right solution might be something that nobody else suggests to you. If you’re not comfortable being thrown in the deep end and figuring out for yourself how to swim, you will not only struggle at but also loathe being a startup founder.