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False dichotomy. Going out on your own doesn't mean you think you are the smartest person in the room. It's often about freedom. If I decide I want to go biking
by _xnmw 4y ago
False dichotomy. Going out on your own doesn't mean you think you are the smartest person in the room. It's often about freedom. If I decide I want to go biking alone, doesn't mean I think I am the best biker.
I decided to keep going the solo-founder route precisely so that my social circle could be enlarged and enriched. Now I don't have to spend most of my time around tech bros and cofounders whose main interest in business. Instead, I cultivate my social relationships in completely unrelated domains: the arts, community outreach, my physical neighbourhood, religion/philosophy and other hobbies. That gives me both the motivation and the space to think and keep going at the business, because my work fuels something other than itself.
- braingenious 4y agoI’m glad that worked out for you professionally and socially, but what exactly are you saying here? If you had a co-founder you wouldn’t have time for friends that are into art, philosophy, religion, neighborhoods, hobbies? edit: To clarify, if I had a business partner that cost me that much, I would definitely sever from that relationship. I would consider that a failure of a single relationship rather than waxing poetic about how everybody would cost that much. To do so would be for me to put myself above theoretical individuals because of a single event. That probably wouldn’t be the sort of error that I would see as reasonable when thinking about anybody I’d maybe do business with…
- kossTKR 4y agoInteresting, what kind of business are you running that is successful enough to go solo? I've been thinking about the same thing, but most solo founders or "digital nomads" i've met are actually working in marketing, affiliate or social media, not really coding, or SAAS. I wonder if it's feasible.