Elliot Jung

I've spent the last decade building startups and been through two acquisitions, with experience across blockchain, education, and AI. But the most important thing I learned wasn't about technology or strategy.

The founders and builders I worked with were sharp, driven, and genuinely gifted. Yet many of them still quit, burned out, or broke down. The longer I watched, the clearer it became that this had less to do with skill or intelligence and more to do with who they were as people. How they carried pressure. How they sat with uncertainty. How they kept the company's failures from defining them. I've come to believe that if founders understood the person beneath the role, more of them could keep going without losing themselves.

That's why I've shifted from building companies to building the people who build them. Because it's the one part no one really prepares you for. If you're building something and it doesn't quite sit right with you, this might be the place to look.