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Year 3 Startup Learnings — Celine Halioua

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I incorporated Cellular Longevity, Inc. in October 2019 as a 24 year old first time, solo founder. Last year, I wrote Year 2 Startup Learnings, and the year before that I wrote Year 1 Startup Learnings. Since then, we’ve grown from 30 to 60ish people, closed two more rounds of financings, and achieved numerous challenging technical feats (and had our faces punched in by biology a couple of times, too!). We are now closer to launching our canine aging drugs than not. We have achieved many of the audacious goals we set almost three years ago, and are making good progress on the many more ahead of us. Needless to say, this past year has brought the best learnings yet.[0] Here are some of the major themes of the year. ——— A Founder/CEO must be capable of both extreme optimism and extreme pessimism, carefully balanced against each other, the ratio tuned to the needs of the problems ahead of them. Extreme optimism expresses itself as unwavering self belief, the ability to look at a dense for

Year 3 Startup Learnings - Celine Halioua Celine Halioua Year 3 Startup Learnings 4 September 2022 I incorporated Cellular Longevity, Inc. in October 2019 as a 24 year old first time, solo founder. Last year, I wrote Year 2 Startup Learnings , and the year before that I wrote Year 1 Startup Learnings . Since then, we’ve grown from 30 to 60ish people, closed two more rounds of financings, and achieved numerous challenging technical feats (and had our faces punched in by biology a couple of times, too!). We are now closer to launching our canine aging drugs than not. We have achieved many of the

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