Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Spending 10 years in risk management will wire your brain to protect - but startups don't reward defense. 🧠

Scott Elliot (Slate) gets brutally honest about the mental war of building when your instinct is to hedge. Most startups fail. He knows that better than most. But what happens when ruthless iteration and relentless execution actually start to shift the math?

You stop surviving the odds. You bend them.

This one hits different for any founder who's had to unlearn something to move forward.

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