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This is the money quote: "A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake. And schleps should be dealt with the same way you'd deal with a cold swimming
by ajju 15y ago
This is the money quote:
"A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake. And schleps should be dealt with the same way you'd deal with a cold swimming pool: just jump in."
It also helps to think of things like "making deals with banks", which can initially seem scary, in terms of the basic human actions they really stand for: "talking to a lot of people who work for banks". To me at least, that is both less boring and less scary.
- esrauch 15y agoFor me, "talking to a lot of people who work for banks" is a lot less scary, but it is also so unimaginably boring. It would be difficult for me to imagine something more boring that talking to a ton of people who work at banks about banking. That's exactly why Stripe is so valuable.
- tomjen3 15y agoI doubt it would be so bad -- I am pretty sure you would learn alot about banking.
- ajju 15y agoI like talking to people. It can be pretty boring if they don't engage with you and just stay with formal/small talk, but if you can get someone to really talk, you learn all sorts of new things about the world.