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Why Choosing the Right Problems to Focus On is Key for Founders
Learn why focus is crucial for founders in achieving success. Discover how prioritizing tasks and delegating efficiently can lead to better results and how companies have succeeded by emphasizing the importance of focusing on the right problems.
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whether I blame VCs or conventional wisdom or Harvard Business School, but
like somehow, sometimes I feel like founders are being told you don't have
superpowers.
Like your best superpowers to delegate as opposed to you can literally get
things done that takes other people, two, three, five, 10 X more effort to get
done.
But you can't do a hundred things with your superpowers, right?
Like you can only choose a couple places to focus and focus seems to be the game
of the game.
Hello, this is Dalton plus Michael.
And today we're going to talk about focus.
Focus.
We both have been kind of reflecting on how companies,
especially in the past year, have figured out how to succeed.
And we keep coming back to the same thing.
What do you think?
What have you seen?
Yeah, it's almost like succeeding is focusing.
Yes. And when things don't go well, it's it's we're not focused on the problem.
We weren't focused on the on the right things.
Like that word focus comes up so.
many times. Yes. And I think it all goes back to what we remember from elementary school or high
school when we had homework, which is when you have homework, you would come up with all these
great excuses on why this was not the optimal time to do it. I'll do it later. I'll prepare later.
My favorite shows on, oh, dinner. I don't have the right stuff. Like, oh, whatever it was. And
And what we learned is you would never get the homework done until you actually focused
and you stopped doing everything else and there was no other distraction.
And that was the only time it ever got done.
And we as humans, this is the cycle that happens over and over and over again.
And what's funny is it goes all the way from an individual contributor trying to build
a feature and needing to focus on just getting the feature shipped to literally the CEOs
of very large organizations.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like one way to think about this whole founder mode thing is focus.
Is the founder being focused on the nuts and bolts of their business instead of being just
I'm distracted with all this noise.
Isn't that funny?
It's weird because I've been trying to figure out when did the idea that
complexity equals winning get into people's heads?
Cause you know, you remember like any of the business people who people
admire, like Warren Buffett, right?
Like simple investing strategy, just like fucking clean Jeff Bezos, his like big
three things that make Amazon work or looking at Google or it's like, Hey, like
all this decoration over here, we're the biggest search engine.
When did the idea that like complexity and being 80 products and 25 surfaces is the way
to win?
Where'd that come from?
I think this is one of those debates where there's no one earnestly on the other side
and everyone say, no, I'm focused.
