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Rob Walling

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Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

My fourth topic of today is from X Twitter and it's a tweet from Sam Parr, co-host of My First Million.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

He says, one reason why entrepreneurship is hard is because you fear that what you're working on today won't pay dividends in five years and that it'll be a waste of time.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

And so you switch from thing to thing to make yourself feel that you're addressing that fear.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Not true.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

He says in all caps, constant switching will kill you.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

The focus is the hard part and will increase the likelihood of the desirable outcome.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

The price of the payout future profits selling company is the focus.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that this is something I harp on a lot because there are a lot of people making excuses for being distracted and for engaging in

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

feeding their entrepreneurial ADHD or their shiny object syndrome or their, I need to be diversified or it's all a matter of luck.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

So I need to make a hundred bets because one might pay off, et cetera, et cetera.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

I don't believe that.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

I think it's terrible advice.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Sam Parr doesn't believe that.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Jason Cohen has come out, doesn't believe it.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

He's come out in favor of focus.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

And I love it when someone like Sam, who by all means has been very successful and is now on his

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

second successful effort.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

He sold his first startup.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

I believe he's been public about it, that it was an eight-figure exit.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

And now he started Hampton.