Failing Forward appears on Not Another CEO
Hard lessons in video & get involved in this project
Hi Everyone —
Thank you for reading and subscribing these past five weeks. The early feedback from founders (and others) is the substack is cathartic to read and includes actionable takeaways.
I appreciate the input — so please keep it coming, and reach out if you ever want to chat. This holiday week, I want to mix things up in my post and:
Plug my appearance on the Not Another CEO podcast
Solicit other’s involvement in Failing Forward
Provide some future expectations for the substack
#1 - The show
My old boss David Politis (Founder and CEO of BetterCloud) graciously hosted me on his podcast, Not Another CEO.
You can watch my appearance below or listen on Spotify. On the episode, we cover:
Finding my co-founder Chris, and how we did “co-founder dating” right
Why we waited too long to pivot and the mentality holding us back
The role of luck in startup success (or failure)
How who you are shapes the choices you make as a founder
I tried to live my purpose behind Failing Forward on the show, and thus my first reason for sharing it here.
#2 - Get involved in Failing Forward
Here is the second reason. Speaking about our failures is not easy, but if you are interested in participating in this project, please contact me. I would love for you to join me in paying forward your experiences, both on the substack and in future Failing Forward video content.
If you want to talk about it, please email me at nicholas.freund@gmail.com or find time to chat here.
#3 - When to expect this newsletter
As a founder, I am hyperaware of my competing instincts to spray seltzer water in the face of convention, while simultaneously being a creature of the tech zeitgeist.
So naturally I decided to build Failing Forward as a substack, while also being unsure that a weekly newsletter format is 100% right for the project.
A weekly cadence is good because it sets expectations and builds momentum with my audience. It also serves as a forcing mechanism to publish. These reasons are of course important, but they can also lead one to prioritize frequency over quality — and at no point do I want the lessons shared here to be contrived.
Thus, I am setting a goal of publishing weekly; but I am also reserving the right to skip a week when there are holidays, or when I need more time to wrap up a meaningful post.
So thus I leave you this week: by wishing you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving — and asking you to look out for next week’s post “What is your unfair advantage?”