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EGK's avatar

Ive started many side hustle businesses over the years... and run 5 of them for over a year.

My last 2 i openly invite other potential cofounders to join in and we 'earn' our equity by what we do. This last case has taught me so much about doers vs. 'thinkers'

A classic case is 2 guys who both had pretty impressive careers and started joining our weekly standups. Where i always encourage folks to pickup some tasks, even if they wanna make it up themselves.

But for weeks they just joined the meetings and did nothing. And instead i see they write linkedin posts about generic stuff like how to be a great product manager, etc

And so there is a massive gap between what they say (ie. i wanna be an entrepreneur and not just work for others) and what they do (which is just focus on finding their next job)

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Arman Khodadoost's avatar

That's a fantastic example Ken. Thank you for sharing!

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Indiana-Jonas's avatar

Fun and great, I'm gonna carry this with me

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Arman Khodadoost's avatar

So glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!

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Nic Rosslee's avatar

This is gold, Arman! Thank you.

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Arman Khodadoost's avatar

Good to hear from you Nic. Glad you liked it!

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Arman Khodadoost's avatar

Haha my dad probably still wouldve said the same thing. Thank you Nadia!

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