432: Don't Give Up... Your Assumptions

The entrepreneurial world loves telling founders to "never give up"—but what if that advice is slowly killing your business? In this episode, I unpack why persistence without direction is just expensive stubbornness. The real skill isn't grinding through everything; it's knowing which assumptions to abandon while keeping the business alive. I share why running parallel experiments beats blind faith, and what a Twitter thread about Pieter Levels' "ugly" landing pages taught me about the beliefs we cling to without questioning. This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored by Paddle.com The blog post: The podcast episode: Check out Podscan, the Podcast database that transcribes every podcast episode out there minutes after it gets released: Send me a voicemail on Podline: You'll find my weekly article on my blog: Podcast: Newsletter: My book Zero to Sold: My book The Embedded Entrepreneur: My course Find Your Following: Here are a few tools I use. Using my affiliate links will support my work at no additional cost to you. - Notion (which I use to organize, write, coordinate, and archive my podcast + newsletter): - Riverside.fm (that's what I recorded this episode with): - TweetHunter (for speedy scheduling and writing Tweets): - HypeFury (for massive Twitter analytics and scheduling): - AudioPen (for taking voice notes and getting amazing summaries): - Descript (for word-based video editing, subtitles, and clips): - ConvertKit (for email lists, newsletters, even finding sponsors):

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432: Don't Give Up... Your Assumptions is an episode from The Bootstrapped Founder by Arvid Kahl.

This episode is 10:32 long.

This episode was published on Jan 16, 2026.

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