Former CEO Of MyBlogLog Tells Me To Stop Projecting – with Scott Rafer
When I asked Scott Rafer, “Wasn’t it painful for a founder as well-known as you to admit that one of your companies, Lookery, failed?” he told me to “stop projecting.”
Then he said, “It would have never occurred to me in those terms. I care about the commitments I make and I care about having control in my life. I am satisfied. In Lookery, I fulfilled my commitments to the best of my ability. I treated everyone well who I could treat well. I didn’t screw up how I want my life to be. Okay. It’s the next day.”
Listen to this interview to hear how this outlook helped him launch and grow several companies, including MyBlogLog, his big hit, which he famously sold to Yahoo within months of being its CEO and relaunching it.
Scott Rafer is a co-founder and director at Mashery, the leading provider of API management services enabling companies to easily leverage web services as a distribution channel. He has been helping Internet publishers and users develop the ‘next big thing’ since 1995.
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