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by Kalanos 683 days ago
I know that I can achieve anything I put my mind to. I feel like I can shoot lightning from my hands and I wield 2 lightsabres.

However, as a primarily computational and business-oriented founder, I am trying to disrupt an industry that is dominated by scientific PhDs and institute spinouts. So even if my science is really novel, I'm still an outsider.

I'd imagine that most founders are, to an extent, outsiders. You kind of have to be in order to develop a radically new thing. You have to be dissimilar to the status quo.