puniaviision

Thanks for the perspective.

Cool hearing about your story! How did you get the initial capital to buy businesses, just from your savings as a research professor?

> This level of humility will take you far. You will get better at talking to customers over time, keep grinding, keep practicing, it gets easier.

Thanks! I launched my first large-scale cold outreach campaign this morning after learning about it this week and building up leads. Tomorrow, I will try out cold calling.

Do you work in private equity or something where you buy out businesses and run them?

I'm technically a type 3, but an idiot one that wasted a lot of time chasing sexy ideas with no connection real-world problems. Trying to get better now.

This whole comment was beautiful.

Especially this part:

"But to recap, my high level point is that the technical expertise is not really the money printer. The money printer is mapping market demand to technical products, which is a business skill. And that business skill is worth a lot more than technical skills. Its just a type of business skill that you find more often in developers than you do in MBA, and so we don't associate it with "business guys". But it's the most fundamental of all skills to make money from software, other than a handful of "exceptions that prove the rule"."

As an ex-shitty business guy, I taught myself how to code thinking that would solve my problems. Nope. Now I'm just a shitty business person and a shitty dev. Forcing myself to do the actual work of talking to customers now.