Resilience

I really loved Fred Wilson’s blog post today titled Resilience. It was exactly a post I needed to read this morning.

Sticking with something, even when the chips are down, is hard. Many people (most?) can’t do it. They are impatient. They want the easy money.

I often get impatient with how things are going. We all want growth and success and we want it now, but in reality things take much longer.

This is amplified in this ridiculous market where seemingly every company is going gangbusters and raising money at ridiculous valuations. Even though we’ve had some great success at Secfi and we’re growing quite fast for a startup our size, it’s easy to look ahead and compare ourselves.

While the world has been going through a painful and deadly global pandemic, the tech sector has experienced a bull market of epic proportions that has lifted all boats and made some incredibly wealthy. But that bull market will eventually end and things will get harder for founders and CEOs and investors.

I’m not sure where this bull market will end, but I do know that every company has a different story and journey. Things don’t happen overnight and I’ve felt the need to focus on enjoying the journey much more rather than focusing on the eventual outcome.