The Four Sons

This is Hillel Fuld’s  #Snapchatorah for Passover

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The Four Sons

The book we read on Passover the Haggadah, talks about four sons; the intellectual, the evil, the simple minded and the one that doesn’t know how to ask questions. Notice how they are defined.

They are defined by their questions. The intellectual one asks questions because he cares, the evil just doesn’t care. The simple minded one doesn’t know there are questions, the one that doesn’t know how to ask, doesn’t know how to ask.

The lesson for Entrepreneur’s: always ask questions

Never take anything as a given, never assume the other person will ask. Always try to fix things and ask questions. Always be learning!

You know how you become a successful entrepreneur? Not by exiting your company not by raising funds, not by getting traction. By learning. Even if your startup fails, and you’ve learned lessons you didn’t fail.

Always Ask

The only way to learn is by asking. I have learned countless things about financing, about fundraising, about things I am not comfortable with, things I did not know about. I have learned by asking. What’s so interesting is that these four sons their entire identity is defined by their questions. Because questions define a person. If you don’t ask, you don’t learn. If you don’t learn you don’t grow.

Be the intellectual entrepreneur and keep asking

Just like these four sons, be the intellectual one. Not the evil one that doesn’t care, or the simple minded one who doesn’t even know that there are questions, or the one that does know, but just doesn’t know how to ask.

Always ask, never accept anything!

A lesson that occurred to me this morning in the car, and I absolutely love it. You know your CEO tells you are raising funds on certain terms ASK WHY. Your boss tells you to adopt a certain strategy ASK WHY.

Always be growing

Somebody tells you there is a challenge that is just too big to overcome. Ask, is it really too big? Someone says something fails, ask, did it? Always be intellectual, always be growing.

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Hillel is a Co-Founder at ZCastApp, mentor at Google, Microsoft, and many other accelerators across Israel. Add Hillel on Snapchat and Twitter