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What are you doing today to out-execute the competition you don't even know exists yet? It's always you against you...
For all your brilliance, vision, manifesting, and everything else that has you on the right path, it is highly likely you are operating like a snail, as in, you are just not moving fast enough.
Personal velocity is the game at early stage. Outwork, outhustle, outfight, outdeliver. Again and again and again.
But velocity without direction is just chaos. The best founders don’t just move fast. They move fast on the right things, and they know when to hand off the rest, and what to ignore.
Consistently the most elite founders, the best execs, the most influential VC’s, the best of the best in almost any field…
Respond fast
Execute themselves
Don’t wait on others
That’s not a side effect of success, that’s how they got there. Why? No one has the right to slow them down. Period. That’s why. They take all matters into their own hands. 100% personal velocity. 100% personal accountability. 100% belief that no one can outwork them. 100% willingness to take the delegated job back from you and do it themselves.
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Starting A Startup: Build Something People Want
Every founder starts at zero. No one starts with a product, customers, revenue, or a real clue how it will all play out.
Failure is the result of not doing everything in your power to turn your nothing into something. It's that simple.
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We know the fastest team to learn wins. Why do we scream this? Because learning gets you closer to the truth - and the journey there (and onwards) is measured as clockspeed.... The speed at which you release, watch, learn, iterate, re-release. If your loop is slow, you lose by default, even with a better idea.
The cost? You can’t capitalize on moments. You can’t protect your wedge. You’re just a big house of unexecuted ideas. Someone else is shipping faster. Another moment is missed. And you start not even getting excited about the clever ideas, because you know how long it will take to execute them.
So just make the call to do a thing, stand by it, ship it today. Get in the habit of intentional speed and just getting stuff done, not stupid reckless, but intelligent, by design stuff.
2026 is the year founders and everyone around them get back in the trenches. The CMO who won’t open Cursor to build a landing page because “that’s not her job”? GONE.
The product lead who won’t prototype because “we have designers for that”? GONE.
But if you’re still prototyping UI when you should be closing your customers, you’re the bottleneck. Do both. Get help.
The era of “I’m the strategist, you’re the builder” is over.
Everything surrounding the core, and even some things in the core, are now founder jobs - so to delegate means that person has to be epic - because we really actually can do it better ourselves….
If someone can do it 80% as well as you and it frees you to do something only you can do, delegate it. But if they’re slowing you down or you’re spending more time managing than doing, take it back. Speed is your weapon at this point, and strategy is just the aim.
So if you or your leadership team are not actually building and self executing yet, start now, like today.
I also know survivorship bias is real, I don’t buy into 997 and as we hear about the founders who are epic and crushed it, we don’t hear about the ones who did the same and still failed or destroyed their health and relationships in the process. This is not an opus to founder mode no matter what Marshall says….
Speed doesn’t guarantee success. But lack of speed almost guarantees failure. You can’t out-strategize execution. You can’t manifest your way past a competitor who’s shipping faster. Velocity gives you more at-bats. More at-bats give you more chances to learn, adapt, and win.
The game isn’t just personal velocity. It’s intelligent velocity. That means:
- Speed on the right things: Customer conversations, shipping MVPs, iterating on feedback. Executing the stuff that moves your clearly forward.
- Strategic delegation: Delegate what drains you and doesn’t move the needle. Own what only you can do. The moment someone becomes a bottleneck instead of an accelerant, you take it back or you move on.
- Sustainable intensity: You can’t sprint a marathon, but you can run fast for a long time if you’re smart about it. Protect your energy. Protect your team. But don’t confuse sustainability with complacency.
Are you moving fast enough? Could you move faster? What could that look like?
If I can be of service, feel free to grab time.
LFG.
- James
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