Martin Villig
Appearances
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
I can talk about myself. So I think the first thing is you can't almost overthink it. And the number one thing I've seen with founders that don't make it is they kind of analyze it to death. And the reality is you're going to have 50% information if you're lucky. If you're waiting for 80% or 90% information, someone's already done it.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
And so you have to move pretty quickly in that window that you're building for. also moves. And the biggest thing I've seen is people think it's always there and they're like, now I'm ready, but that window's already gone. And like someone else has already done that. And when we launched, we started in multiple countries and we were shipping US cards to multiple countries.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
Now we have licenses in 22 countries, but if I was waiting for the license to start, we just would never start. And so it's a balance. You have to be comfortable with that level of risk.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
And then the second thing is, I think someone mentioned this here, but you have to enjoy the process, like build something you want to build, because at the end of the day, you know, the funding, your unicorn, like none of that's going to get you through when it's hard and you have to be like, why are you actually doing this? Because you could probably do a lot of other things.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
And so if you don't enjoy the process of building, you don't fall in love with the process, the outcome and everyone's an outcome. We're all here. We want an outcome. But if you don't enjoy the process, it's going to be very, very hard to make it, and you're probably going to burn out.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
And then the last thing that I've seen, and this is something someone told me, but as a founder, you have the most information. And so a lot of times, things don't look as good as people tell you it is on the outside, but they're also not probably as bad as you think it is on the inside. You see everything. Right.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#487: BEST OF - Transform Your MINDSET, Transform Your LIFE with Steven Bartlett, Krista Mashore, Amjad Masad, Dileep Thazhmon, Martin Villig, Ankush Grove, Jerrod Blandino, & Colin O’Brady
And part of this is like splitting that up and being like, hey, keeping the balance of your good days are good. Your bad days are bad. Some days is the same day, but it will change. Tomorrow's a new day. You get another shot. So you have to like enjoy that process to get to that end point.