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No discussion at all of the actual content of what he was saying. In my experience he was right on the money. Problems just keep coming at you and you gotta deal. The only way to truly be successful and be able to look back and relax is to leave the business. Seems most founders aren't built that way though.

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I tend to agree, though I doubt there's anything specific to unicorn success levels about that. Even the smallest business I ever started, with positive but very modest results financially, felt like that. I think it's probably the sense of building something completely new and open-ended that attracts a lot of us in the first place, and that drive doesn't disappear just because you finished your MVP or shipped v1 or hit this or that financial milestone.

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