Archive - Building the Builders

Embracing Healthy Ambition | Q&A With Gena Gorlin | #269

Bad ambition vs. good ambition, which wins?

Published on Pathless by Paul Millerd • Jun 22

May 2024

The hidden belief that kills great startups

Founders, check yourselves for misanthropy

May 29 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

Next AMA with Gena: 11am CDT on Thursday

Exclusively for paid subscribers (Zoom link below)

May 14 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

April 2024

Coaching for Demo Day

My week in SF with a batch of badass builders

Apr 29 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

March 2024

The builder's yardstick: your life as the measure of all things

A builder builds, and a builder can build many things: a product or service, a team, a company, an essay, a song, a friendship, a home, a family, a…

Mar 27 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

All about the money

There are two types of concerns I get when talking to founders (and other ambitious people) about money: 1) They care about getting rich, but feel like…

Mar 22 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

February 2024

Happy 2nd anniversary, Building the Builders!

Some updates and announcements in honor of turning 2

Feb 26 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

The Many and Wondrous Forms of a Builder’s Ambition

A conversation with Brett Kopf, founder of Remind and Omella

Feb 15 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

January 2024

Your flaws matter less than you think

Why flawlessness is a faulty metric for human perfection

Jan 30 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

December 2023

A New Year's dialogue with myself

As January 1 approaches, I predictably feel a lot of internal pressure to write some kind of “year-in-review” post. Most of it I can chalk up to the…

Dec 31, 2023 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

Where Therapists Go for Therapy: Getting Sold on the Power of ChatGPT

The story of my 2 days working with Dan Shipper on the "Maximize your Mind with ChatGPT" course

Dec 20, 2023 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

November 2023

Being entrepreneurial about entrepreneurship

A conversation with David Booth of On Deck

Nov 13, 2023 •

Dr. Gena Gorlin

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