I Invested 6+ Months Watching Interviews of $100M Entrepreneurs as a Bootstrapper, Learned Nothing — Don’t Watch These Interviews | by Sanjay Priyadarshi | Apr, 2024

Save time and invest your time elsewhere

As a bootstrapper, I spent over 6 months watching interviews and didn’t learn any valuable lessons.

I learnt things like:

• How to handle disputes.
• How to retain the top talent
• How to give employee feedback

When I was learning these things I thought I was onto something big. But in reality, it was nothing more than procrastination.

Here I have talked about the drawbacks of excessive consumption of these interviews.

When I started learning to code, I had a secret desire to build my own business.

At first, I was hesitant about whether I would look for a job or start my own business.

But as time passed and I consumed a lot of entrepreneurship-related content, I became sure I wanted to build a business.

When I wasn’t spending my time learning to code, I was watching interviews of successful entrepreneurs who had built a company worth over $100M.

It wasn’t like I was choosing these founders on purpose, but all the interviews and podcasts I consumed used to have these kinds of guests.

I thought these entrepreneurs had built something big and could easily teach me how to start and run a business.

Every day I learnt something new.

A few months after consuming this type of content, I started my first business. Since I have learned so many things, it would have been a success, but unfortunately, it failed.

Only sharing their wins

I have never shared anywhere why I started writing online after my failure.

Writing is good for personal brand and all. However, a key reason for writing online was to share lessons from my failure.

I never saw any of the successful entrepreneurs talk about their failures. They only use it…