I've been a loser most of my life until I showed up
I've been a loser most of my life. As a kid, I was constantly fighting with my mom. She wanted me to have good grades, but I hated school, and school hated me. As a teenager, I didn't grow up. I was 155cm and super skinny when all the other guys were 180cm. I became an easy target, and I had to stop playing sports. As a uni student, I lost the remaining bits of self-confidence. I had no role model, no idea what to do. So I became the guy who drinks the most and plays World of Warcraft the hardest. As an entrepreneur, the first five years were painful. I kept failing, I cried, I lost my friends who followed the traditional path, and I felt completely misunderstood by everyone (my parents still don't really understand what I do). The wind only started blowing in the right direction after 28 years because I showed up. - I've built 30 startups when no one was looking. - I've worked out 300 days a year for three years before getting ripped. - I kept believing, even though I was hopeless. If you want something hard enough, don't give up because it's just about putting in enough reps.
@marclou · Oct 2, 2025
2021 I spend one month building a Shopify store to help men not dribble when they go to the toilets. Obviously, I get 0 customers when I launch. So I print stickers and put them in public toilets in Paris. Obviously, no one buys. Three months later, I decide to close the shop. Another failure. A few months later, I burn out, cry, and punch my bedroom wall. Everything you see online is the tip of a 10-year iceberg of failures.
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