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Noah Dolgoy of Tread presents This is Going to Hurt
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In their words
The most important thing to remember is that we are wrong constantly — and that's actually where wisdom comes from, because startups are business experiments.
There's this overriding mentality that many of us live by, which is the idea that because it's a startup it's okay if we're not very good at things. I actually think the opposite — you're a startup, so you need to be better at everything.
You have one life and one body, and if you destroy those two things in order to build a company or fundraise, you've kind of undermined the whole purpose of trying to be impactful and improve the world around you — because you won't be there to enjoy it.
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Quick answers
What is Noah Dolgoy known for?
Founding Tread in 2016 and building it into the platform used to dispatch, track and bill construction material deliveries. He was CEO through the company's $24 million of funding, including a Series A led by Crosslink Capital in November 2019, and is now its executive chairman.
What did Noah Dolgoy do before Tread?
He was a corporate lawyer, with further experience in private equity, and holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto's law school and Rotman School of Management. He advises and angel-invests in early-stage startups and is an alumni associate at Creative Destruction Lab.
What did Noah Dolgoy say about raising a round at TechTO?
That the tips-and-tricks guides are crap, because every founder, investor and company is different — and that the real work starts after the term sheet, when you are suddenly obsolete as a leader and have to become an operator. He also described the panic attack that sent him to hospital mid-financing.