Ambition should be measured in the eyes of your customer rather than your peers, which means being willing to take the best ideas wherever you find them.

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• A founder needs ambition rather than a sense of duty, because a startup is grueling enough that dutifulness will not carry anyone through it. PGPaul Graham3 Sept 2026ambition
• After a year or more of building for velocity, the next year will probably be won on ambition instead. CVClaire Vo10 Sept 2026ambition
• Ambition does not equate with happiness: in the Harvard aging cohort it was the people who lived average lives who reported being happiest. MHMasud Husain24 Aug 2026ambition
• Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare. PGPaul Graham3 Sept 2026ambition
• An AI agent's execution is only as good as the goal and the verification criteria given to it; ambition without verification is just a wish. JLJason Liu10 May 2026ambition

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