Ankur Nagpal suggests that many startups fail to achieve their full potential because they pursue venture capital funding for businesses that are naturally suited to be smaller, profitable entities.

“my inclination with something like that is it could totally be a really nice business it's probably not Venture scaled so I think someone could make a nice living off it but it's not the idea I would raise money for”

Being a founder requires total obsession with the product to the point where one should not simply hire others to solve problems that are part of the core building experience.

“I'm not giving up. Like, I just will not give up. And then last [clears throat] night he's like, wow, the internet in my room is really fast. Everywhere else it's slow, but at least in his room it's fast now. And I was like, no, I haven't figured out the other eight rooms in the house.”