Pursuits
What Advice Would You Give Your 30-Year-Old Self?
What Jerry Springer, movie producer Mace Neufeld, and other notables would tell their younger selves
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Apu Gupta
38, chief executive officer and co-founder, Curalate
“I wish I had known that founding a startup was more scary than risky, because I would have done it earlier. Instead, I allowed the fear of failing to drive me into a management consulting career, where I lost time and confidence being in a job I wasn’t great at. Six years later, I finally started my own company and have never felt more stability, creative freedom, and sheer joy in a career.”