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We’ve all been told to “fix” ourselves — to work on our flaws, quiet our obsessions, and think less. But what if those flaws are the very things that make us great founders? Your need for control might be what drives your vision. Your overthinking might be what saves your startup from disaster. Your “flaws” might just be your superpowers — if you know where to point them. 🎧 Startup Therapy Episode 316 – Founders, Embrace Your Flaws https://lnkd.in/eKAQeMbN Listen to more on the #StartupTherapy podcast with Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan.

We spend so much time trying to “fix” ourselves as founders — our impatience, our overthinking, our obsession with control. But what if those flaws are actually the source of our best ideas? The traits that make us hard to manage also make us impossible to replace. The quirks we try to suppress are often the same ones that drive our breakthroughs. Instead of asking, “How do I fix this?” Maybe the better question is, “Where does this actually help me?” 🧠 Your flaws might just be your superpowers — if you learn where to point them. 🎧 Startup Therapy Episode 316 | Founders, Embrace Your Flaws Listen to more on the #StartupTherapy podcast with Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan. #founders #startups #selfawareness #entrepreneurship #leadership https://lnkd.in/duBqsDEf

We’ve all been there — sending cold DMs, pitching to inboxes that never reply, and hoping this one will finally click. What if instead of chasing investors, you let the right ones come to you? That’s exactly what Investor Matching does — connecting founders with investors who actually want what you’re building. Give it a try and see how much smoother fundraising can be. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dYZ84iP5 #fundraising #startups #founders #investors #StartupLife

Remote work didn’t kill office culture — it just exposed what was never really culture to begin with. No one misses the conference rooms or 3-hour meetings. What people actually miss are the small, human moments — bumping into teammates, sharing ideas, feeling connected to something bigger than their screen. The challenge isn’t “bringing people back.” It’s rebuilding belonging — without the walls. #startups #leadership #founders #remotework #companyculture

For a lot of founders and team members, it’s not about hating work — it’s about how we work. We don’t miss conference rooms or commutes. We miss connection. Remote culture isn’t broken — it’s just different. The challenge isn’t bringing people back to desks, it’s finding new ways to bring them back to each other. 🎧 Episode 315 | Is Remote Culture Actually Culture? Listen to more on the #StartupTherapy podcast with Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan. #startups #founders #remotework #leadership #companyculture

Is remote work really culture — or just coordination? Founders love the freedom of remote teams. No commute, fewer distractions, pure focus. But something gets lost when culture only happens through a screen. People don’t miss the office. They miss connection. The hallway moments. The shared energy. The feeling of being in it together. So maybe remote work isn’t killing culture — it’s redefining it. The challenge now is figuring out how to rebuild that sense of belonging, without the walls. 🎧 Episode 315 | Is Remote Culture Actually Culture? Listen to more on the #StartupTherapy podcast with Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan. https://lnkd.in/db668iwc #startups #leadership #remotework #founders #companyculture

Every founder dreams of the day they can hand off their startup to someone else — the “killer operator” who’ll keep things running while they finally breathe. But here’s the hard truth: it almost never works the way we imagine. You can hire great operators. You can systemize every process. But what you can’t hand off is the founder’s instinct — the urgency, the ownership, the pulse of the business. So before you step back, ask yourself: Which parts of your company truly need you — and which ones are safe to let go? 🎧 Can I Hand Off My Startup? Listen to more on the #StartupTherapy podcast with Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan. #founders #leadership #startups #entrepreneurship #founderlife https://lnkd.in/daega6mR

AI isn’t coming for us. It’s already here. It’s writing code. Running tests. Building funnels. For $49 a month, you can buy what entire teams used to do. So where does that leave Founders? Exposed. If your value is execution, you’ve already been replaced. The only thing left is vision. Conviction. The ability to rally people around an idea when it looks insane. AI doesn’t do that. That’s our job. I’ve seen this movie before. The PC revolution. The Internet. Social. Every Founder who dismissed them disappeared. Exactly none survived. AI will replace Founders—the ones too stubborn to evolve. But if we embrace it, we don’t just survive. We multiply. We do 100x more, with 1/100th the cost. So the choice is simple. Evolve into the future. Or get erased by it.

At some point, every founder realizes this: You don’t run a startup — it runs you. Your schedule, your sleep, your emotions — all orbit around it. You wake up thinking about it, you go to bed replaying it, and somewhere in between you’re trying to remember what balance even feels like. But here’s the truth we forget: You built this thing. You decided to bring it into existence. And that means you can decide how much power it has over you. You can close the laptop at 6PM. You can take a weekend without checking Slack. You can build something ambitious without letting it consume you. Because if your startup only works when you burn out — it’s not sustainable. Not for you, not for the company. So today’s reminder: You’re not just building a startup. You’re building a life that has to make sense around it. #founders #startups #leadership #entrepreneurship #startuptherapy

Sometimes a “promotion” is just a gentler way of saying you’re being pushed out. Boards don’t want an air strike — they want an air lock. Equity math, optics, litigation risk, knowledge transfer — there’s a thousand reasons they won’t rip the band-aid off. If your title suddenly changes to something like Chief Vision Officer or Director of Strategy, ask the hard questions. Protect your equity, your role, and the part of the work that actually matters to you. 🎧 Episode 313 | Did I Just Get Promoted or Fired? Listen to more on the #StartupTherapy podcast with Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan. #founders #leadership #startups #entrepreneurship #founderlife