The biggest lie in entrepreneurship is that success comes from working more.

It doesn't. It comes from working on the right things.

I learned this the hard way. The bigger Elitex gets, the more time disappears into things that have nothing to do with building — emails that need answers, follow-ups I forgot, meetings that could've been a message, admin tasks that pile up faster than I can clear them.

At some point I realized: I wasn't building anymore. I was managing.

That's when I started paying attention to what the people further ahead than me were doing differently. And the answer wasn't "work harder." It was: they stopped doing things a tool could do for them.

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If you're serious about building something, your time is your most valuable asset. Stop spending it on things that don't require you.

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