Wise Words

2/ Giving up control is hard & it was the hardest for me. I felt like everything at the beginning was important. You can't be good at everything tho. As you grow, I learned it's important to conciously give up things constantly. If you don't, you won't scale & everything suffers.

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 21, 2018

4/ Over time, you will feel like all you’re doing is spending time in meetings but not getting any real work done. You are though. Your job is now helping other people through the medium of meeting. Don't resist it, embrace it. Now's the time to design it to be fun & productive.

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 21, 2018

6/ Live by the mantra: “you should be building a team that can fulfill the mission without you.” You will be less stressed in the long-run. Keep empowering others. When you forget, try & ask yourself why you started this thing in the first place. Was it really about $$/power/ego?

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 21, 2018

8/ Don't avoid confrontation with tough, critical decisions--deal with it head-on. Avoiding confrontation, builds resentment over time, it slows the company down, & relationships eventually turn sour in a irrevocable way creating instability. Attack problems, not people though.

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 21, 2018

10/ Your job will become 90% listening, 10% talking. I was bad at this & had to work 2x as hard at not interrupting people. Best solution I found after 9.5 years was to write things down during a meeting. It made me focus on what they were saying & showed I was listening.

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 21, 2018

12/ Discovering the truth becomes hard as you grow. It also becomes the most important thing you can do as you guide the company. Make acquiring it & using it for decision a part of the culture somehow. I did this by constantly asking people what the actual facts were.

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 21, 2018

14/ We’re all human & have our insecurities so consider a therapist to assist in helping with your personal psychology. If you associate a stigma with it know that I did too. I was wrong & wished I had done this earlier in life. It will be invaluable if you tend to bring it home.

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 21, 2018

If you haven't read it already, check out this thread of mine on fundraising too: https://t.co/v2U2QQC8kL

— Suhail (@Suhail) May 22, 2018