Title: Hi Hacker News,<p>I am a tech entrepreneur. I&#x27;ve dedicated my life to technology and building products that can help people. I&#x27;m relatively smart and really hardworking. My success thus far has been modest, though I have been able to raise funding from a prestigious VC firm. My standards are high so I do not consider fundraising any kind of success. I also detest self promotion and so I have not announced the fundraise. My startup feels like it has just recently found product market fit but I&#x27;m not sure. Either way I will go for it. The problem is everytime i try to hone in on myself and focus on my goals I hear about someone I know or someone &quot;like me&quot; (i.e. they have similar attributes, aren&#x27;t friends but are in my peer group, and are working on a similar idea or an idea i&#x27;ve had in the past) whose raised a bunch of money and is all over the press and in some cases has achieved real success. I have this negative feeling for hours, days sometimes that I can only assume is jealousy. Perhaps because I am competitive. Perhaps because in addition to wanting to build products and help people, I am human and I want to be the &quot;first&quot; or the &quot;best&quot; in my peer group. I don&#x27;t like feeling this feeling though because I know that I genuinely wish this people well and that if i myself were successful I wouldn&#x27;t feel this way...or maybe I would? I&#x27;d love your help and advice on how I can do away with this feeling and focus on being a world class entrepreneur. I am not OK with being OK with failure and I do not accept being mediocre, but there has to be a way of being competitive in a healthy way without having to unfollow every stream of social media from peers that succeed and without having to feel envious of others. Sorry for the long rant but I&#x27;d really like to turn the leaf in the new year and I appreciate your help!
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