3 powerful life lessons learned after a failed startup

In 2017 I found myself dissatisfied with the corporate world and with where my career was headed and decided to make a drastic change. With over a decade of professional programming experience under the belt, I found myself venturing out of the office more and more looking for that next big thing.

That next big thing would end up becoming a startup co-founded among friends and business partners that would end up taking 3 years of my life.

Here are 3 lessons that I learned along the way.

3. Learning to fully trust others

In a startup, your financial situation can be very much attached to your immediate teammates and their level of productivity and output. If you have a family, their livelihoods also rely on them as well.

This makes fully-trusting others to get done what is needed a difficult challenge to say the least, because there’s something important on the line.

You want to to trust everyone to read the email, type the code, test/debug and launch right on time without hesitation. But that’s not really how life works. In real life:

“Sorry guys my parents are in town and I’m going to go visit for the week!”