Past Talk:Three Ways Being Smart can hurt you as a Founder
Summary:
On December 4th, 2024, Speaker Xianhang Zhang gave his talk on the topic of “Three Ways Being Smart can hurt you as a Founder”
Being smart undeniably helps founders in numerous ways but there are some traits smart people develop and are rewarded by in society that can hurt them in the founder journey. In this talk, Xianhang Zhang covers his experiences working with smart founders and how three traits in particular crop up over and over again amongst smart founders that can derail a startup:
Overthinking Things
Perfectionism
Preferring Overcomplicated Solutions
He goes into why such traits arise disproportionately amongst smart people and ways to combat these tendencies.
About the Speaker
Xianhang Zhang is a 3x Founder and ex-Head of Growth at the South China Morning Post. He’s held a number of roles across startups in San Francisco, China and Hong Kong and labels himself as someone who’s done so much startup stuff he’s equally bad at everything. He now works as a Founder Coach in Singapore.
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