I note that I don’t think obsession can be built from scratch. You either walk in with it or you don’t. What you can do is sharpen it a little every day.
I was honestly never a fan of the "X factor" thing; it felt vague. But the way Antler breaks it down actually made sense.
2 yrs since my parents thought leaving a stable MNC job was the worst idea.
2 yrs since my friends thought this was just another addition to my long list of escapades.
Two‑year reflection since landing in BLR to work on Matiks: 2 years.
I note that my parents once called leaving a stable MNC job “the worst idea” and my friends called this move “just another addition to my long list of escapades.”
My personal mission is “basically trying to prove one thing to myself,” reminding me that “the people who made it big in life aren’t any smarter than us; they just tried,” so why can’t we?
After a day of reading and conversations with hundreds of founders, I reflected on the importance of obsession and distribution in startup success, citing BazaarNow and Antler as examples.
Obsession example: "priyanshu runs both the big calls and the tiny details himself."
Key signal for evaluation: "obsession plus distribution".
BazaarNow is scaling toward 15,000 orders a day within a few months of launch.
I adopted Antler’s decomposition of the vague “X factor” because it makes the evaluation criteria concrete.