[d4nt]

The most challenging thing is that the people you’d normally share your challenges or fears with don’t understand the concept of “I’m gonna create something huge with nothing and I don’t care if I die trying.”

This strikes me as the saddest part of this article, but also a bit of a failure on the part of the author. Part of being a founder is surely inspiring others to believe that you're on to something; that you’re adding value and ultimately making the world better. If you believe in something, strongly enough to make you sleep in a truck, but can't communicate that to the people closest to you (who should be predisposed to listening to your point of view) then surely there's a problem.

When I say 'communicate' I don't even mean getting them to sign up to your service, I just mean making it clear to them why you are sleeping in a truck and why that's a rational behaviour from your point of view.

If, for example, you were sleeping in your truck to raise awareness of homelessness or as some kind of performance art; your friends and family might not agree that that was the best way forward, but they'd probably still be bringing you hot food at night. Why is your proposition so hard to explain that you're lying about where you sleep? Is it actually quite a shallow mission (e.g. I just want to make lots of money and haven't really got a vision of how to make the world better) or is it that you're not able to communicate your vision well, even to those close to you? Either way, alarm bells are ringing in my head.

[djt]

Life at the "top" is lonely. Explaining to people what you're doing would probably have most people put you in a mental asylum. One of the things about this that he is trying to explain is that when youre the CEO of a start up you're doing things that a VERY small percentage of people would ever do, and very few people would understand why anyone would ever choose to do that.

[d4nt]

Lonely? I agree. Impossible to explain your motivation to those closest to you? Hmmmmm. If you want customers or investors surely you need to learn how to explain your vision and be confident doing so.

[alexro]

He started off as a developer and worked his way up to create a company and become the CEO. Why on earth should he had been versed in the things other than development? And isn't it unfair to pretend changing the world when all you want is to work for yourself, which is Ok?