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Rob Walling

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3342 total appearances

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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)

And here he is talking about the power 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 someone chimed in that they think this is survivorship bias.

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 Sam says, if your goal is to have an outsized success and be above average, that doesn't come from diversification.

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)

Diversification is what you do to preserve wealth.

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)

Focus, people.

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)

Don't believe those who tell you that you can lose weight by not exercising and eating more ice cream.

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)

It sounds good.

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)

It feeds your instinct.

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 want to start 20 things.

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 want to focus on anything.

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)

Focusing is hard.

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)

Bouncing from one thing to the next is easy and it's fun.

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)

Usually in life, I've found that the things that are most worthwhile and that are going to bring me the success that I want or the results that I want are the hard things.

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)

When in doubt, I lean in to the hard things.

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 last topic of the day is an original tweet from Harry Stebbings, who hosts the 20 Minute VC podcast, and he's a venture capitalist himself.

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 then Adam Fox says,

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)

who's at last name Fox on X Twitter, said, Rob Walling for your next episode.

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 Harry Stebbing's original tweet says, triple, triple, double, double is dead.

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)

Going from 1 million to 3 million to 9 million is not interesting.

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)

You have to go from 1 million to 15 million to 100 million.