I’m Not a Visionary. And That’s a Good Thing.

Startups need both a builder and a visionary to create a rocketship that won’t explode

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readSep 26, 2022

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Our society glorifies visionary founders who articulate a grand future their company is creating. These leaders get interviewed on CNBC and invited to speak at Davos. Everybody wants to be known as a visionary leader — everybody except me.

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Entrepreneur, angel investor, startup mentor, sake snob. Author of the Silicon Valley mystery To Kill a Unicorn: https://amzn.to/3sD2SGH