Happy Easter 2021
So, my impromptu moderator gig for the Burmese revolution’s next steps from yesterday was a success. It was quite insightful and I hope a lot of folks who joined have something to take away from the call. Anyway, let’s talk about Easter!
Easter is one of the major holiday events based on Christianity in the western hemisphere. The event is to commemorate the rise of Jesus Christ from his death (He is risen, is the common tag line here). People usually go around to look for Easter eggs with children and have fun the whole day (in case you do not know what Easter is)!! My first Easter experience was in Melbourne Australia, weirdly enough their Easter holidays are way longer than the American version so, that’s a good thing.
Anyway, I did not really do much today and I never really celebrated Easter or any other holidays aside from Christmas and Thanksgiving. I woke up this morning spend over an hour catching up with a friend from Amsterdam, and then went to the gym for my CrossFit session, came back, and spent some more time with her on a video call. I think every founder needs some support system given the hustle and the constant anxiety that we live with, so I highly recommend that for aspiring founders.
I think people are feeling lonely and stressed with the pandemic, but people like myself of Burmese origin are also coping with this whole radicalization from the Burmese military coup which started in Feb 2021. I don’t really wanna get many details into it but in short, over 550 young people have bravely sacrificed their lives fighting against the well-armed fascists, so it’s our job to make sure that their lives are not lost in vain.
I also enjoyed watching my favorite team — Manchester United scored a late winner to clinch its second-place spot in the English premier league. Also spent some time with my data scientist roommate and we watched a few fights from My Hero Academia (Lemillion vs Overhaul and that Red Riot Unbreakable scene!). I personally can sympathize and relate to Overhaul’s goals to turn society back to normal with no special powers but that’s for some other time!
It was a much-needed session to pump ourselves up given the impending civil war in Burma, sadly. So overall it was quite a relaxing Sunday, complemented with a lovely evening nap. My weekly meeting for Faba Advisors was canceled, we really need to get everyone to focus on finishing the curriculum and the pipeline for our first cohort.
Aside from that, I checked in with my engineering, strategy, and product teams for some minor status updates. Had a few calls with my Chief Marketing Officer on our next steps with the MVP launch and explored some adjacent problems that we might be able to solve or pivot into later down the road.
An interesting thing to note is that, as a CEO of a startup, you also have to spend quite a bit of time, managing the team for capacity building in addition to some communication issues. This got me thinking, I should really start working on defining the culture of Syr! Listening to someone from GitHub talked about remote companies and their company culture on clubhouse really helps!
A good friend of mine who is also a founder in the AI space told me to let folks know we are hardcore and if a person is not, there is no place for that. I personally think it’s a bit harsh but I agree with him on principle. I believe that there are only two types of people in this world: those who know how to figure things out and those who do not know how or have the will to figure things out. As long as you are in the latter group, everything else is quite achievable despite your base intelligence.
Anyway, lots of things to do for Syr’s MVP launch. I have been focusing too much lately on the engineering team, hopefully, I can focus this week on going over the feedback from my mentor at B37 VC. This episode in particular was quite interesting so enjoy it if you are into consumer space.
