"If the business isn't good, you lose all of those optics eventually anyway. And this is hard for founders, right? Because, you are on a roller coaster, and sometimes founders look for external validation, right? 'Okay, well, if I have a lot of people, or if I have investors or whatever, it means that I'm doing well.' But really, the only thing that matters is, are you serving a really large market of customers, and do they love your product?"
