Your Family May Never Understand
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So as the years have gone by, we’ve all begun to understand SaaS a lot better.
So many of the leaders in SaaS have now crossed $1B in ARR, from Box to Cloudflare to Okta to HubSpot to ZoomInfo, and so many more are coming up on it fast, from Smartsheet to Monday to Asana and more.
So we know.?And what we know now for sure, that we always still knew anyway, is that it both (x)?takes 7-10 years to Go Big in SaaS, (y) and it probably takes 12-20 years to build something iconic.
To go long.
And … asking your family to be 100% on that journey is asking too much.
I remember an old mentor of mine told me when I started my first startup that “you can only expect true understanding from your family and significant other for about 6 months.”?After that, it was just asking too much to ask them to understand everything you’ll go through.?From the near-death startup experiences, to hiring the wrong VP of Sales that spends all the money, to losing your top customer to a top competitor.
It’s too much, and too hard, for non-founders to understand.
A few thoughts:
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It’s tough.?Being a founder is so different.?Everything is so competitive.?Capital is so scarce in the early days, and sometimes, forever.?It takes longer than you think.?People leave.?Folks stop believing.?You can’t stop.?You can’t take a sabbatical.
Your family won’t get it, not really, not usually.?And certainly, they can’t live all of it with you forever.
Get a great peer group, a great mentor, and … adjust.?And understand, in some cases, your relationships will never be quite the same.?It’s a tough but real part of the journey.
If it were easy, it would have been done already.
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1 年I love this post. Spot on
Co-Founder and CEO Vendasta -The number one AI platform to market, sell, deliver and service digital products for small and medium businesses
1 年So true
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Co-founder at Tanda
1 年I normally like your writing, but I think this is nonsense. Founders are meant to be good at decision making and time management. If you don't bring your family in on the journey and if you put them second behind the business, you haven't done your job as a spouse/parent well enough. It's all part of the job and providing for your family is what makes it rewarding.
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1 年100%. Although they try their best to. But ultimately it’s 100% on our shoulders.