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What are the best and worst things about setting up your own company?
Sokratis Papafloratos explains that the best thing about setting up your own company is that you get to choose the people on your team, and the problems you focus on. The worst parts are that the responsibility is on your shoulders – you can’t ‘switch off!’
Transcript
The best things about starting your own company is that you get to choose the people that you want to work with, and you get to choose the problem that you want to focus on and spend, like, some of the most productive parts of your life on. Some of the worst parts of starting your own company is that the responsibility and the buck absolutely, you know, stops with you.
So it's not something that you can switch off, so it's important that you find something that you are okay not switching from for most of your life.