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I guess harden the fuck up?

Thank God someone said this. Of course it is stressfull, there is no free lunch. If you can't take the heat just dont enter into a such top-heavy game.

Exactly. Or just don't do it.

I am sure enough that I would crumble under that specific kind of pressure that I don't put myself in situations where I would experience that specific kind of pressure. Works great!

Many high performers have perfectionist tendencies

Landlords and supermarkets dgaf. There is no real risk, and if they stress over it, that’s more a founder’s own psychological failing than anything else.

If you care what other people think that much, you probably don’t have sufficient quantities of the oft-cited “grit” that founders supposedly require.

I think if the idea of your company failing doesn’t cause you at least some stress then you probably shouldn’t be running a company?

Maybe risky ventures aren't for them.