What 8 Years in Corporate Life Did — and Didn’t — Prepare Me For as a Founder

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As a consultant, chaos was a problem I had to solve. As a founder, it’s the air I breathe.

I entered the startup world armed with what I thought was the ultimate toolkit: a consulting background. Years of strategy decks, stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration taught me how to turn chaos into structure and solve problems fast. I thought I had seen it all.

But I quickly realized that the transition from consultant to founder wasn’t so much a pivot — it was a free fall. See, consultants and founders couldn’t be more different. Consultants are trained to be perfect, founders need

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