I lost a year to courses while others just built
Antonio Nguyen, building Quant100, answers "What is the one thing you need right now, and who has it?" on 2026-10-17.
I think entrepreneurship content is making people worse entrepreneurs. Let me explain. When it comes to entrepreneurship, you should not be thinking, overthinking, overanalyze everything you need to do because it is too competitive. Things are moving like that. One thing is the meta. The... One thing is the meta one month, and the next month is not the meta anymore. It really is that quick. You have to move quickly, and the only way to do it is just... And the only way to do it is just doing it. I promise you, one of the least productive one of the least productive years of my life was the years where I was learning as much as I can, getting all the courses, and basically trying to overanalyze every situation, what business I should take, what pursuit I should do. And at the end of the day, people who were in the industry that I was studying to master and dominate, they went right past me. They created the business. They failed. They learned. They failed. And they learn and learn again until they eventually they won. That's... And that's how you win. That's how you win in this day and age. And so one of the biggest things I realized through entrepreneurship and also starting my own business was all you have to do is start. When you start building things, when you start working on something, even when you have no idea how to do it, we'll figure it out. This run club, this quant community, everything that we built so far was literally things that we thought of the day before, and then we just executed. You have to have that mindset. I think what... That's that's why people who don't think often... More often than not in my industry, more often than not, you see a lot... More often than not more often than not, I've noticed the people who succeed are the ones that don't overthink anything. They just do it. If there's a good idea, might as well try because it really is a gamble. To become a millionaire, it's a gamble. To become a billionaire, it's a gamble. You have to put yourself out there and risk as much as you've ever risked before and see if it works or not. And in order to do that, to find the right formula, the right business, the right app or shop that actually works, you have to put yourself out there and spam as much as you can. And in order to do that, you can't overthink it.