Founder FOMO is off the charts these days. Companies started 2 years ago appear to be getting further ahead than companies started 10-20 years ago. Seemingly effortlessly. So why grind for decades? This is where managing your own psychology is so important as a founder. There are a lot of paths to success and a lot of definitions of success. The easiest definition of success is terminal value of your company. Investors and the media care most about this and that thought has been incepted into the brains of many founders too. But the longer I’m a founder the more I care about everything else. The impact to society. The future success of the team, and bonds built between them. The happiness of customers. Over the decades these are what have created most meaning for me in life and work. And paradoxically the more I’ve focused on these other vectors, the more great opportunities have presented themselves to me. Run your own race.