1/ On enjoying the journey:

In winter 2009 Paul Buchheit ( @paultoo) gave a talk to our YC batch.

He said if you want money you should go work at Google/Facebook instead of doing a startup and you should do a startup if you enjoy the journey.

I thought he was crazy at the time.

2/ I thought:

A) I wanted the end result and didn’t care much about they journey
B) Startup founders seemed to have such great exits
C) It seemed like doing a startup was pretty hard
D) I didn’t think people got paid that much at big cos

3/ Between 2009 and 2015, Paul was proven extremely right.

All my friends who had taken jobs at those big companies or other high growth startups had done very well.

Whereas I was still struggling at my startup.

4/ Even after my exit in 2016 I had taken a lot more risk and achieved not much more monetary return than my peers.

However, I had enjoyed the journey so much that I decided to do it again with @BankMercury.

Lesson being: enjoy the journey and always listen to @paultoo :)