Hi, I'm Jan König 👋. I'm one of the founders of Jovo, 28 years old, and live in Berlin. < Go back to learn more.

“Your ugly startup should sink like the Titanic. Are you fucking shitting me? Not even stoned you’d come up with a shitty idea like this”

Someone tweeted this at us today. I should know that trolls are everywhere and stuff like this just happens. Still, this one went right into my face. It hurts, when you give something your all, and people attack you just because they randomly read about your idea somewhere.

What I hope to learn from it: You can’t please everyone. With every unlike on Facebook, newsletter unsubscribe, or Instagram unfollow, it’s pretty easy to feel anxious about doing something wrong. But we should rather see it as an opportunity to investigate: What makes the other people stick? 

Ever experienced something similar? Just hit reply. I'm interested!
 

Sign Up

In this newsletter, I try to reflect on my learnings of building an open source startup. Join 135 subscribers who receive a weekly email from me: