Founders Note #5

When I was learning to play the guitar, I thought talent was everything.

It wasn’t.

Progress didn’t come from a single breakthrough; it came from thousands of small, quiet moments.

Repetition. Frustration. Repeat.

Over time, something strange happens: What once felt impossible starts to feel natural. Your hands move without thinking. You stop focusing on the details and start feeling the music.

Building a company feels exactly the same.

There’s no shortcut. No secret formula. You just keep showing up. Some days it clicks. Most days it doesn’t. But you keep going anyway.

Because you know that the effort compounds. Every bug fixed, every design refined, every conversation had - it all adds up.

Music taught me patience.

It taught me that there isn’t instant gratification - it’s earned through time and discipline.

And that lesson translates to everything:

Whether you’re building a company, working on a new skill, or writing a song, you’re really learning how to stay in the process long enough to see the magic happen.

What’s something hard you’ve stuck with long enough to finally see the progress?