A founder who takes their bearings from what everyone around them is saying will end up nowhere; you have to build your own compass for what the future looks like.

you just you can't base your business decisions based on what everyone else is saying around you. Like, if you go too much with the herd, you will get immensely confused and you will end up nowhere. And so you have to develop your own compass of what you think the future is going to look like because everyone else will just confuse you.