[traceddd]

Poor idea to found a startup in a field you don’t believe in. Waste of time from the start.

[nine_k]

Even as a rank-and-file senior dev, I never join companies that work on ideas I don't believe in (web3 included). I can't be productive and efficient working on stuff I despise.

I can't imagine how would it look for a founder. It's like trying to swim while being skeptical about touching water.

[JohnFen]

What do you mean by "believe in" here?

There have been very few companies I worked for where I "believed in" what they did in the sense of thinking they were doing something amazing and world-changing. But I "believed in" them enough to know they were doing things I found interesting and could afford to pay me.

> I can't be productive and efficient working on stuff I despise.

There's a huge amount of space between believing in something and despising that thing.

> It's like trying to swim while being skeptical about touching water.

I think being nervous about touching water when trying to swim for the first time is healthy and rational, and may even make your ultimate success more likely. I'd be much more comfortable working with a founder that had a healthy amount of skepticism than a founder who was a "true believer".

I suspect I'm purely getting trip up on language here, though, and I probably agree with your underlying sentiment.

[srejk]

Roll-friggin-eyes Scotsman. You think everyone that founds a startup for, say, B2B data integration Really Believes In It? Or just that there's money to be made?

[KaoruAoiShiho]

Usually you believe you can make money if you deliver value to the customer. In crypto people don't believe they deliver value, they scam or prey on fomo.

[chc]

There are absolutely people who go into B2B data integration startups with the belief that they are providing a useful service to their customers. Do you really doubt that?

[siva7]

I got some surprising news for you. There are people who passionately work in B2B data integration. All successful B2B startup founders i've met are very passionate about their field. Now for those founders who don't have much interest in the field they are working on - they are hardly those who you would call successful by any metric. Life is too short to waste it on things you don't care about.

[traceddd]

I believe they believe they are helping people and the work is valuable at some level, if they are successful, yes. At the very least they aren't intrinsically opposed to the field.

[bee_rider]

What does it mean to Really Believe in B2B data integration?

[intelVISA]

You should be passionate about delivering a viable competitor in that problem space, or why bother?

[pickingdinner]

If you don't believe in the work, it's just a job. Most of us have a job, which really is just low hanging money. Belief can be motivation to start something, but this wasn't something he started, either.

[AnicetN]

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