What are you running from?

This is Harry Stebbings of 20VC's favourite question to successful founders and investors. He believes they are all running from something and that is what drives them.

A recent FT article suggests the same thing:

Hayes Barnard was sitting at a football match with a fellow chief executive when he decided to test a theory about what might account for his neighbour’s success.

“I gotta know,” ventured the founder of US fintech GoodLeap “Is it daddy issues, near-death experience or learning difficulties?”

What are you running from?

Do you need to be running from something to be successful?

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