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

What I had personally done was I was working on side projects.

And after I received investor interest, that's when I said, I'm going to quit and go build.

I think that when people hedge too much as an investor, I don't think they're serious where they want the money inside their bank before they actually quit their job.

So I would say we're on weekends or like, you know, after work, work on side projects, like get some traction because that traction will turn into investor money.

But you don't really want to tell investors like I haven't really quit my job yet because it will make them feel uncomfortable.

You can say that, but you should make it known that whether or not you get the money, you will quit your job or at least just say that.

I don't know, because I think you don't want them to think that you're not serious.

It is a sacrifice to de-risk, but de-risking does make sense.

So if you're able to work on your side projects over the weekend, after work, et cetera, like, yeah, you won't be spending as much time with your friends, but you're also de-risking your life essentially.

And I do think that like once you have an MVP with traction, which you don't need to quit your full-time job to get, like you will be able to fundraise.

How do you think the best ideas are found?

I think the best ideas are found when you're solving a problem for yourself because there's so many people in the world that if you're building for yourself, other people are going to have that problem.

And then whether or how large of a company it can be is just a function of how many people also have your problem and how much are they willing to pay.

But you'll know exactly what to build and then you'll be able to use the product yourself and be able to figure out which features to build, what needs to like, how to innovate, etc.

I think the best companies that I've invested in and the best companies that I have built have all been problems I've solved for myself.

Absolutely.

Yeah, and the next billion dollar company might just be like a small problem that you're solving for yourself, but you decide to expand on the idea afterwards.

So I think the thing that people waste the most time on is actually just product development and like design.

Because when you go to a large company and you see how long it takes to design small features, it can be months to years because they want the UX to be perfect.

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