Top 5 Learnings After Mentoring 100 Startups
Top 5 Learnings After Mentoring 100 Startups As a 16-year-old high school kid, I started my startup journey reading Paul Graham’s essays on how a few smart developers could produce value worth millions per year through shared creativity and speed. That captivated me. At that age, some would fall in love with pop artists, but for me, those engineers were the real rock stars. When I was 22, I started a company that led my co-founder and me to be hired by another startup, VectorWatch. A few years later, Fitbit acquired it, and we built the biggest European Development Office. We worked on global projects that impacted the lives of millions of users. After another few years, Google acquired Fitbit, and so we created the biggest Wearable Development Center in Central Eastern Europe for Google. It was quite the journey, with ups and downs, that taught me valuable lessons. I joined a startup accelerator program on its first edition in 2012 and remained close to it as a mentor for the fol...