Episode 645 | Anti-Bro, Nuanced Thinking, and Being Good vs. Being Great (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In episode 645, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he covers whether bootstrapping is the anti-bro movement, the difference between working with someone good vs. someone great, and the rise of outrage culture on social media and how that doesn’t leave much room for nuanced thinking. Episode Sponsor: Find your perfect developer or a team at Lemon.io/startups The competition for incredible engineers and developers has never been more fierce. Lemon.io helps you cut through the noise and find great talent through its network of engineers in Europe and Latin America. They take care of the vetting, interviewing, and testing of candidates to make sure that you are working with someone who can hit the ground running. When it comes to hiring, the time it takes to write your job description, list the position, review resumes, schedule interviews, and make an offer can take weeks, if not months. With Lemon.io, you can cut down on a lot of that time by tapping into their wide network of developers who can get started in as early as a week. And for subscribers of Startups For the Rest of Us, you can get 15% off your first 4 week contract with a developer by visiting lemon.io/startups Topics we cover: 3:28 - The anti-bro startup movement 8:58 - Outrage culture on social media 12:49 - Declining a $9M acquisition at 18 16:14 - What startup founders can learn from outlier performers 22:23- The difference between being good vs. being great Links from the Show: MicroConf Masterminds I Learned 227 Beatles Bass Lines And Discovered This… If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	I showed up to dinner and I think my belt buckle, I'd gotten out of a cab or an Uber or something.
0:04.8	My belt buckle was literally two inches off to the side.
0:08.2	And one guy said, you got to straighten your belt.
0:10.2	You run a conference now.
0:11.8	And I remember thinking to myself, what in the fuck are you talking about, man?
0:15.2	Like I've run five of these events, six of these events.
0:17.9	This was my house.
0:19.1	I remember feeling that.
0:20.1	Like, this is my house.
0:20.9	You don't come in here and it's little levels of, like, disrespect, right? That just don't need to
0:26.1	be there. And no one else does that. The only people that have come to microcomp and said things like
0:30.7	that happen to be these overconfident folks, you know, who had hopped in, and I'm not ragging on San Francisco per se, but we do know that there's that startup row feel that maybe just doesn't jive with who I am,
0:42.3	doesn't jive with what microconf is, and it doesn't jive with the community we've built. Welcome back to start up to the rest of us.
1:03.7	As always, I'm your host Rob Wallin.
1:05.6	And this is the show where we talk about building and growing bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startups
1:11.9	through relentless execution and thinking in terms of years, not months.
1:17.1	We know that this is a marathon, not a sprint, and maybe I can throw in another cliche metaphor
1:21.6	right here.
1:22.1	But no, it's about thinking about things over the long term and about shipping something every
1:26.4	day, but not expecting that to move
1:28.9	the needle immediately, usually realizing it takes months or, in most cases, years to build something
1:35.2	great. Thanks for joining me again today. Today's episode is a solo adventure where I talk
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