Charlie Lass

Charlie LassSep 11, 2026

The fastest way to become a truly inspiring leader? Assume you’re wrong. Not open. Not unsure. Not passive. Wrong. 👉 That one shift will save you more time, money, and embarrassment than anything else. Most founders and CEOs stop learning the second people start listening. They get a bit of traction. A bit of praise. A bit of status. Then something ugly happens. - Feedback is taken as disrespect. - Questions start to feel like challenge. - They start playing favourites to avoid conflict - Their Team shuts down completely. Because the Team see what gets rewarded. 📌That is how the rot starts. It’s the beginning of the end for most early stage companies. 👇 With a leader who needs to be the cleverest person in every conversation. 👇 With someone who says they want honesty, then punishes it. 👇 With someone who hires smart people, then ignores them. “Be teachable” is not a nice little slogan. It’s FUNDAMENTAL to your success. It is the difference between building a business that adapts and building one that disappears up its own arse. I have seen brilliant people become useless the moment they thought they were above being corrected. And I have seen leaders with less talent build exceptional teams because they stayed open, curious, and hard to offend. That is the game. Not knowing everything. 📌 Learning faster than your ego can wreck it. A few hard truths for anyone leading people: 1. The moment your team has to manage your reactions, they stop telling you the truth. 2. If you only accept feedback when it is perfectly delivered, you do not want feedback. You want praise. 3. The higher you climb, the easier it is to confuse agreement with respect. 4. If nobody challenges you, it is rarely a sign of strength. It usually means people have given up. 5. Teachable leaders get better. Untouchable leaders get exposed. Be the leader people can tell the truth to, and one who can see they are wrong. That is where the real edge is. - ♻️: Repost to inspire. ➕: Follow Charlie Lass.

Charlie LassSep 14, 2026

Ideas are cheap. Talking about them is even cheaper. I meet people all the time who are “building”. Then I ask what they’ve actually released… Nothing. 🤦‍♂️ They’ve named it. Explained it. Made a deck for it. Asked 140 people what they think. 📌 But they haven’t put anything into the world. That’s the bit that ACTUALLY matters. - You don’t need another coffee meeting. - You don’t need another month of research. - And you definitely don’t need everyone to understand it first. 👇Build the ugly version as cheaply as you can: 1. Get one raving fan. 2. Make one sale. 3. Ship one feature. 4. Find out what’s wrong. 5. Fix it. 6. Ship again. Ideas die in a vacuum. An idea gets infinitely more interesting the moment reality punches it in the face. STOP trying to convince people your idea is brilliant. Build something so good you don’t have to. Then tell us what happened. - ♻️: Repost to remind. ➕: Follow me to build something awesome.

Charlie LassSep 16, 2026

Western Union called the telephone a toy. Microsoft laughed at the iPhone. $2.1 trillion ago. These weren't idiots. They were the most qualified people alive, looking straight at the future, calling it ridiculous. - The New York Times said flying machines were millions of years away. - UK Parliament said the light bulb was beneath serious men. - Every department store in New York turned down the wheeled suitcase. 🚀 Want to build something amazing? Here's what you need to know: The inventors weren't more confident than their critics. If you read their letters... They were broke, terrified and ignored. (Sound familiar...?) They just kept shipping WHILE they doubted themselves. That reframe changed how I live. Confidence isn't the entry requirement. It's the receipt. There's stuff i do all the time that scares the shit out of me. You don't feel certain and then act. 📍 You act, something works, and certainty builds as you repeat it. I've started lots of companies and exited three. I didn't truly believe in ANY of them on day one. I believed in that a customer needed what I was building. That was enough belief to start, every time. 👉 So aim at the thing that feels too big. Not because you'll definitely land it. Because the laughter costs you NOTHING, and a small plan gets you the same critics with none of the upside. 😆 Let them laugh. Tells you more about them. But if nobody's calling your idea a toy, you may be building something too small to matter. I wrote a book about surviving this bit. It was scary as hell. It's called: You Suck and Your Ideas Are Terrible. Out next month. First chapter's free. DM me: "Terrible". - ♻️ : Repost to inspire someone new. ➕ : Follow me to be part of the next journey.