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  • A friend of mine who's got a good saying which is that starting a company is like eating glass and then staring into the abyss.

  • When you first start a company, there's lots of optimism.

  • And things are great.

  • And then so happiness at first is high, then you encounter all sorts of issues.

  • And happiness will steadily decline.

  • When my brother and I were starting our first company, instead of getting an apartment, we just rented a small office and we slept on the couch.

  • We had just one computer so the website was up during the day.

  • And I was coding at night, seven days a week all the time.

  • If you succeed and in most cases you will not succeed, and Tesla almost didn't succeed came very close to failure.

  • I don't ever give up.

  • I mean I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated.

  • If you're trying to do something new, it's the best way to think.

  • Now is the time to take risk.

  • SpaceX has announced an ambitious plan to send an unmanned capsule to Mars.

  • Bringing the company's CEO Elon Musk one step closer to his dream of colonizing the Red Planet.

  • Work hard like I mean every waking hour.

  • That's the thing I would say, if you're, particular if you're starting a company.

  • And then just work like hell.

  • I mean you just have to put in you know 80 hour, 80 to 100 hour weeks every week.

  • Other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks,

  • then even if you're doing the same thing, you know that in one year you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.

  • Whatever area that you get into, given that you know even if you're the best the best, there's always a chance of failure.

  • So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing if you don't like it, life is too short.

  • You know I'd say.

  • And also, if you like whatever you're doing, you think about it even when you're not working.

  • I mean, it'll just it's it's something that your mind is drawn to and and if you don't like it, you just really can't make it work, I think.

  • If you succeed then after a long time you will finally get back to happiness

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