An interesting point here is arrogance towards investors. The art of "arrogance" is to be arrogant in what you are saying while being very kind and nice in the way you say it.
It's very hard as a first time founder to mimic the arrogance that is natural for experienced founders. If you can do it, it's great, if you can't, it will burn your bridges and blacklist you.^^
If you can pull it off though, you're the master. It's the pinnacle of hustling, having nothing to offer but being as confident as the next Mark Zuckerberg.
So you'd need to be as confident as Mark Zuckerberg when he had $1M users when you only have 1000 users. However, that also only works if you intrinsically think of yourself as a very high-value individual and if you have worked for several on you to think that way. Otherwise, investors will quickly spot your fake.
It's very hard as a first time founder to mimic the arrogance that is natural for experienced founders. If you can do it, it's great, if you can't, it will burn your bridges and blacklist you.^^
If you can pull it off though, you're the master. It's the pinnacle of hustling, having nothing to offer but being as confident as the next Mark Zuckerberg.
So you'd need to be as confident as Mark Zuckerberg when he had $1M users when you only have 1000 users. However, that also only works if you intrinsically think of yourself as a very high-value individual and if you have worked for several on you to think that way. Otherwise, investors will quickly spot your fake.