How To Succeed as a Female Founder When All Eyes Are On You!

You know, I think that when we have successes, yeah, of course there's learnings in that, but the learnings really are in the failings.

And I'd say that as societies, which is not great around failure at all, we regard it as failure.

We don't see it as a progression, a natural part of, any great endeavor, you know, and it's funny because I always look at sports people.

I think they're great around failure because they, they're just trained that, yeah, I'm going to do it sort of a gazillion times.

I'm going to make that first serve in tennis.

And a lot of the time you're going to fail to get the winning shot, but that's part of the game.

And I just, it's, you know, how as a, as a solopreneur, right.

Where you don't have a lovely co-founder like you've got, who's naturally got something that you don't have, what could a solopreneur do to sort of really get themselves through this tumultuous, oh my God, messy middle of, oh, I've failed all that team members.

I don't have the confidence to do this.

What would you say to them? I

think, first of all, why do you want to be a solopreneur? Or do you want to be, are you at your best when you act alone? Or are you at best when you have someone to bounce idea with? So I personally have done both and I am still not sure.

I think I am the ideally, in the ideal world, you have a business partner that has complimentary skills, either character wise or something that you compliment each other and the two of you or the three of you become whole.

But at the same time, you will have the frictions and things that you wouldn't have when you are on your own, where else you outsource certain tasks to virtual assistant or today AI.

I mean, there are so many things that you could have accelerate where you use certain agents or VAs.

I mean, these are... suffer is not the only way.

I only say to women.

Very often, you know, we feel that, you know, it's such a suffering as founders.

It's optional.

So you can make your life easier and you just have to make conscious choices, you know, trade off that to understand yourself well.

What do you want to achieve for the business? Because I think that especially in founder space, especially when you are more in...

in the Bay Area, I think that the notion of you have to be a big team, raise tons of money, that is the definition of success.

But

I know great entrepreneurs as in they run a, you know, just a food store.

And they have very low cost and they have optimized their margin.

They have two helpers to help them to do the stuff, the things that they don't need to do.