Will Ahmed

And so I can still want to push for the company to be bigger and more successful and be affecting more people. But I can also at the same time, I think, appreciate the impact that it's having. and, and that's, I would say, will the entrepreneur or CEO, right? We all have these different identities and, uh, You know, I've sort of looked at hard things that happen in your life as a path to growth.

And so I can still want to push for the company to be bigger and more successful and be affecting more people. But I can also at the same time, I think, appreciate the impact that it's having. and, and that's, I would say, will the entrepreneur or CEO, right? We all have these different identities and, uh, You know, I've sort of looked at hard things that happen in your life as a path to growth.

And so I can still want to push for the company to be bigger and more successful and be affecting more people. But I can also at the same time, I think, appreciate the impact that it's having. and, and that's, I would say, will the entrepreneur or CEO, right? We all have these different identities and, uh, You know, I've sort of looked at hard things that happen in your life as a path to growth.

Like we talked about early on when I was 22, like not really knowing what I was doing running a company and just having to go through that sort of painful period of becoming a better CEO or becoming a better human. I think that in general... Um, you know, pain in some form leads to growth.

Like we talked about early on when I was 22, like not really knowing what I was doing running a company and just having to go through that sort of painful period of becoming a better CEO or becoming a better human. I think that in general... Um, you know, pain in some form leads to growth.

Like we talked about early on when I was 22, like not really knowing what I was doing running a company and just having to go through that sort of painful period of becoming a better CEO or becoming a better human. I think that in general... Um, you know, pain in some form leads to growth.

And so if you, if you kind of adopt a growth mindset, it makes you much more comfortable with being in that painful state. Now you don't want to be at it. You don't want it to be in sort of a masochistic way where you're, yeah.

And so if you, if you kind of adopt a growth mindset, it makes you much more comfortable with being in that painful state. Now you don't want to be at it. You don't want it to be in sort of a masochistic way where you're, yeah.

And so if you, if you kind of adopt a growth mindset, it makes you much more comfortable with being in that painful state. Now you don't want to be at it. You don't want it to be in sort of a masochistic way where you're, yeah.

Like what you just described where you're like, you want to force yourself to be in pain, but more just in the sense that like, wow, a bunch of things just went wrong in a row for me.

Like what you just described where you're like, you want to force yourself to be in pain, but more just in the sense that like, wow, a bunch of things just went wrong in a row for me.

Like what you just described where you're like, you want to force yourself to be in pain, but more just in the sense that like, wow, a bunch of things just went wrong in a row for me.

And this is very painful. My best friend committed suicide a little over a year ago. And in my personal life, that was the most pain that I'd ever felt in my life. I'd never lost anyone, let alone someone who I had seen a week earlier. And I think when you're first going through the...

And this is very painful. My best friend committed suicide a little over a year ago. And in my personal life, that was the most pain that I'd ever felt in my life. I'd never lost anyone, let alone someone who I had seen a week earlier. And I think when you're first going through the...

And this is very painful. My best friend committed suicide a little over a year ago. And in my personal life, that was the most pain that I'd ever felt in my life. I'd never lost anyone, let alone someone who I had seen a week earlier. And I think when you're first going through the...

the trauma of an experience like that it's hard to find perspective in it but you know if my emotional range at that point in my life was like from a six to a ten where like you know zero is about zero is like the worst thing in your life and and ten is like you know you feel great euphoria like in hindsight my emotional range was actually kind of narrow

the trauma of an experience like that it's hard to find perspective in it but you know if my emotional range at that point in my life was like from a six to a ten where like you know zero is about zero is like the worst thing in your life and and ten is like you know you feel great euphoria like in hindsight my emotional range was actually kind of narrow

the trauma of an experience like that it's hard to find perspective in it but you know if my emotional range at that point in my life was like from a six to a ten where like you know zero is about zero is like the worst thing in your life and and ten is like you know you feel great euphoria like in hindsight my emotional range was actually kind of narrow

right and so being able to go down to a to a one or a two for some period of time actually opened me up in a in a really healthy way in the months later and in a way that i never would have anticipated from having this terrible thing happen in my life and uh and so you know some of it's a little bit of just how you reframe everything but i have found that

right and so being able to go down to a to a one or a two for some period of time actually opened me up in a in a really healthy way in the months later and in a way that i never would have anticipated from having this terrible thing happen in my life and uh and so you know some of it's a little bit of just how you reframe everything but i have found that