"When you're doing something incredibly difficult, you need to get professional help. Nobody ever decides to go climb Mount Everest and doesn't get a trainer or doesn't train for years before trying to attempt it. But people decide one fine day they're going to become a startup founder, raise millions of dollars from investors, and go through zero professional training on how to deal with that level of pressure and stress. If you go investigate in Southeast Asia, I would say less than 10% of founders have professional help. Finding the right professionals to help you is also huge because it's impossible to go through that journey alone. And we often talk about how a founder's journey is a lonely journey and therefore you need the right team of support who are of service to you. It's not your investors. It's not your team members. It's not your friends. It's professionals who know how to train you for the challenge you're up against." - Projjal Ghatak
"We should be studying the leaders who are extremely effective at bad causes so that we can apply those principles to good causes. The cause of your point and the quality of the leadership are completely independent of each other. Unfortunately, we live in a world today where there are a lot of global, governmental leaders who are very good leaders, often not for the right causes. Therefore, we have a responsibility to demonstrate leadership for good. And the only way we can sort of compete with leadership for bad is by being equally good as leaders, but for the good." - Projjal Ghatak
"Nir was talking about this in your episode with him. When you talk about distractions, only 10% of distractions are because of external triggers. 90% of distractions are about internal triggers, which is why I think the study of the mind, psychology, and neuroscience, is underappreciated in the world that we live in. We've lived in a world where we've prioritized cognitive abilities, people doing math, physics, and computer science, but as some of these cognitive tasks get overtaken by machines, and it will happen more and more in the next 20, 30 years, as human beings, we really need to study ourselves and really understand how you work out for your mind to put it in a place that it can deal with things in a healthy manner." - Projjal Ghatak
In this episode, Jeremy Au speaks on leadership coaching, venture capital versus private equity, and the power of learning.
Keywords: Projjal Ghatak, Leadership Coaching, Venture Capital vs Private Equity, Learning Power, USA, VC, Founder Story
