Nobody tells you how to pay yourself when you start a business. So most founders either don't — or they just guess. Here's the truth: paying yourself isn't optional, it's a business expense. If you don't account for your compensation, you're building...
Dr. Park's Diagnosis
This is straightforward, well-intentioned founder advice that avoids the usual startup clichés while inadvertently embracing a few classics. The core insight — that founder compensation is an expense, not optional — is genuinely useful and grounded in reality. The execution is clean and direct, which earns it a yellow card rather than red, though 'running on empty' and 'that's not a business, that's a trap' read like they've been workshopped through a hundred LinkedIn posts.
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