The error 99% of teams make
They build three pitch decks and wait for the padrino to pick one, and he refuses, naming the mistake: you're sourcing motivation from outside. It's the arranged marriage that never lasts, and the fix is geometric, three founders need a shared center of passion or the elastic snaps them back.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 16:27 (si fuera la pasión, un obstáculo no los tumba)
- ↳ video diary @ 17:32 (la analogía del matrimonio arreglado)
- ↳ video diary @ 32:44 (el elástico del triángulo)
- ↳ Entry 140-1: The millionaire plan lasted four days (la muerte de Tencargo que provocó esto)
The morning after Tencargo died, they build three one-page decks in an hour, one idea per founder, and take them to the padrino “esperando que Jorge fuera como un juez y hablara: me voy por esta” ▸ 14:46. He refuses to be the judge, and names the error the title promises: if this were your passion, “cualquier obstáculo no los dejaría tan en el piso” ▸ 16:27, you trip, you get up easy. Waiting for him to choose is sourcing motivation from outside, and “la motivación tiene que ir por dentro porque si viene por fuera, cualquier tropecito se resbala todo” ▸ 19:05.
His analogy is the keeper: parents who pick a partner for their child, “eso también no crea una relación duradera” ▸ 17:21, because durability comes from the choice being internal. Tencargo itself was the padrino’s dream, borrowed, “cogemos un sueño de alguien” ▸ 19:48, which is why the first cold shower from the print shop was enough to topple all three of them.
la motivación prestada se resbala al primer tropiezo; la propia se levanta →
The geometry makes it a team problem, not just a personal one. Three founders pulling in three directions are a triangle of elastic: run hard toward your corner and the other two snap you back ▸ 32:40, “no sirve de nada correr rápido hacia un lado si los demás no corren en la misma dirección.” So the eight months of everyone swimming apart, all those videos as evidence, produced no fixed point ▸ 32:08, and the task becomes finding the centroid, the shared center of mass, by Monday, a hard deadline as a “corte” to force the change ▸ 25:22. What saves the relationship with the padrino is his framing, the best investor analogy the diary has collected: “yo pongo el balón y ustedes ponen la pierna” ▸ 29:08, an investor exists to propel a thing already moving, not to aim it, and “cuando ustedes estén listos, yo estoy” ▸ 20:29…
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no entry has continued this idea yet: the arc is still open