# How NOT Following My Dreams Enabled Me to Build a Startup With 3.2 Million Users  ## Metadata - Author: [[Aytekin Tank]] - Full Title: How NOT Following My Dreams Enabled Me to Build a Startup With 3.2 Million Users - Category: #articles - Source: medium - Last Highlighted: 2024-10-30 10:08:51.774373+00:00 - URL: https://medium.com/p/b03a9cb05cb9 ## Highlights - They’re something the founders themselves want (I wanted to automate web forms) - And that few others realize are worth doing (two competitors emerged right after my release, but the market was otherwise untapped). - That they themselves can build (I had the dev skills and experience) - I didn’t graduate from Harvard or MIT. I didn’t have two successful prior exits, and I didn’t sell my first membership product to Google. My company didn’t start because of my connections. - Here’s another point that people rarely discuss: investors want to back founders with killer resumes.