Dileep Thazhmon

There's a lot of armchair philosophers out there. And I would say that's like the number one skill you learn as a founder. You know, I talked earlier about trusting your gut instinct. There's so much bad advice out there. It's like probably like 90% of the advice is bad. even good advice becomes stale.

There's a lot of armchair philosophers out there. And I would say that's like the number one skill you learn as a founder. You know, I talked earlier about trusting your gut instinct. There's so much bad advice out there. It's like probably like 90% of the advice is bad. even good advice becomes stale.

There's a lot of armchair philosophers out there. And I would say that's like the number one skill you learn as a founder. You know, I talked earlier about trusting your gut instinct. There's so much bad advice out there. It's like probably like 90% of the advice is bad. even good advice becomes stale.

You know, if an investor's been like an operator in the dot-com era, like most of their advice is already stale, you know? And so as a founder, you just get like massive amount of information, being able to parse through that and figuring out what is the good information and what is the bad or misinformation and kind of being able to throw that away. But also just being chill about it.

You know, if an investor's been like an operator in the dot-com era, like most of their advice is already stale, you know? And so as a founder, you just get like massive amount of information, being able to parse through that and figuring out what is the good information and what is the bad or misinformation and kind of being able to throw that away. But also just being chill about it.

You know, if an investor's been like an operator in the dot-com era, like most of their advice is already stale, you know? And so as a founder, you just get like massive amount of information, being able to parse through that and figuring out what is the good information and what is the bad or misinformation and kind of being able to throw that away. But also just being chill about it.

You don't have to be mean about it or anything like that. If your father wants to give you a piece of advice that's irrelevant, just smile and nod your head.

You don't have to be mean about it or anything like that. If your father wants to give you a piece of advice that's irrelevant, just smile and nod your head.

You don't have to be mean about it or anything like that. If your father wants to give you a piece of advice that's irrelevant, just smile and nod your head.

My biggest regret, I'm generally not a very regretful person. I generally just go through life and just assume that it is somewhat predestined. I'm going to make the mistake I'm going to make and just keep going. So I don't recommend regret in general. But I would say the thing that I would have loved to embrace earlier is really trusting my gut instinct.

My biggest regret, I'm generally not a very regretful person. I generally just go through life and just assume that it is somewhat predestined. I'm going to make the mistake I'm going to make and just keep going. So I don't recommend regret in general. But I would say the thing that I would have loved to embrace earlier is really trusting my gut instinct.

My biggest regret, I'm generally not a very regretful person. I generally just go through life and just assume that it is somewhat predestined. I'm going to make the mistake I'm going to make and just keep going. So I don't recommend regret in general. But I would say the thing that I would have loved to embrace earlier is really trusting my gut instinct.

Every time I've listened to an investor who's otherwise like a very smart and knowledgeable person or really any kind of mentor or anything like that and went against my instincts because I thought, oh, they're an authority, they know what they're doing, we've made mistakes. and we've lost time.

Every time I've listened to an investor who's otherwise like a very smart and knowledgeable person or really any kind of mentor or anything like that and went against my instincts because I thought, oh, they're an authority, they know what they're doing, we've made mistakes. and we've lost time.

Every time I've listened to an investor who's otherwise like a very smart and knowledgeable person or really any kind of mentor or anything like that and went against my instincts because I thought, oh, they're an authority, they know what they're doing, we've made mistakes. and we've lost time.

And as I matured as a CEO, I've actually become a lot more comfortable in my skin in terms of just being able to make decisions, really gut-based decisions, and not really stressing over decisions a whole lot, changing my mind quite a bit to my chagrin of my team sometimes, where it feels like a little random. But I think that's really what...

And as I matured as a CEO, I've actually become a lot more comfortable in my skin in terms of just being able to make decisions, really gut-based decisions, and not really stressing over decisions a whole lot, changing my mind quite a bit to my chagrin of my team sometimes, where it feels like a little random. But I think that's really what...

And as I matured as a CEO, I've actually become a lot more comfortable in my skin in terms of just being able to make decisions, really gut-based decisions, and not really stressing over decisions a whole lot, changing my mind quite a bit to my chagrin of my team sometimes, where it feels like a little random. But I think that's really what...

building a startup is like, is that you need to explore a lot of things, and it's okay if some of those things don't work out, but don't do things just because you're expected to do them, or because someone said something that felt that it was authoritative for you. So I would say just trusting my instincts.

building a startup is like, is that you need to explore a lot of things, and it's okay if some of those things don't work out, but don't do things just because you're expected to do them, or because someone said something that felt that it was authoritative for you. So I would say just trusting my instincts.