Lucy Guo

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1,295 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Lucy Guo: The Fastest Way to Build a Business Today (The #1 Strategy That Saves You Months of Wasted Work) · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And by maintaining those connections, I was able to hire them as my employees, retain them and then support them when they went to go build their own companies.

Yeah.

So this is actually probably an interesting one.

I think that ambitious people have this mindset, like I want to learn from the smartest people because that makes sense, right?

So they gather all the mentors that they have possible and then they enter paralysis when it comes to decision making.

So they ask all the mentors around them instead of listening to like their own gut.

And if I had done that, scale actually would have never started because I had a decision paralysis when I was deciding whether to leave Snapchat versus go build a company.

I gathered all my mentors.

I asked them, like, do you think I should stay at Snap or go do my own thing?

And every single one of them, and I mean every single one of them, told me to stay at Snap because Snap was in its hyper growth stage and it was about to go public.

People thought I was absolutely insane given that I was on this extremely special team with only 10 people.

And I think I would have entered decision paralysis if I were to have listened to my mentors.

So I ended up just listening to my gut and optimizing for learning instead because I did feel like my learning had become stagnant at the company.

But I think that extremely smart people constantly want to learn from others so they find the smartest people and they ask almost too many questions.

It's better to make an imperfect decision but move forwards because you can change your path than to enter decision paralysis.

Exactly.

And I think investments are very similar, right?

Because you have to go against the grain to make a good investment.

Like Airbnb, I think is a great example.

And Uber is a great example.

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