

Magic happens when you commit.
A world-changing idea requires a
committed founder





Reza has been teaching entrepreneurship for 25 years. A serial founder himself and one of the most popular professors at Harvard Business School, Reza challenges his students to embrace discomfort, make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, and develop judgment. No simulations. No handholding. Instead, real tension, real consequences, real learning.
The Founder
Mindset Podcast
Insights, lessons, and strategies from founders who’ve been in the arena.
The Founder Mindset podcast launches in May, with my first guest, Reese Witherspoon. Every few weeks, we'll have a new conversation, with more insights from guests like Tim Ferriss, Kevin O'Leary, Alix Earle, David Fialkow, and more.

you'd take it.
If you had one shot,
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Ideas are everywhere — commitment is not.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Any idiot can make a decision with perfect information.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Commitment is a superpower, not a sacrifice.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“No decision is a decision.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Obstacles not of your own choosing are a privilege.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“If you are involved, you are responsible.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“You are the prize.”
Words from Reza
In focus
Thoughts on risk, judgment, commitment, impact and freedom.

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Ambitious people often make this career mistake, Harvard expert says—it can silently block your success
Ambitious people often find themselves succumbing to the “curse of optionality,” says six-time business founder and Harvard Business School senior lecturer Reza Satchu. They try so hard to keep all of their options open that they underperform or have decision paralysis and do nothing at all, he says.
By committing to one of your options, almost regardless of what it is, you can buck the trend. “Actually doing the thing that others won’t do,” Satchu tells CNBC Make It, gives you a “massive advantage” and can lead to accomplishing your goals.
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What Alix Earle knows about business that many of my Harvard Business School students don’t get
When Alix Earle’s publicist called to ask whether she could come to Harvard Business School—to sit in on my class, be the subject of a case study, and speak to some of the sharpest young minds in business—my first instinct was to decline. I pulled up her TikTok. I saw someone having fun, looking glamorous, going to parties. I hung up and called my daughters, and they didn’t hesitate: “Dad, you want her there.”
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The Founder
Mindset Podcast
Insights, lessons, and strategies from founders who’ve been in the arena.
The Founder Mindset podcast launches in May, with my first guest, Reese Witherspoon. Every few weeks, we'll have a new conversation, with more insights from guests like Tim Ferriss, Kevin O'Leary, Alix Earle, David Fialkow, and more.
you'd take it.

If you had one shot,
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Ideas are everywhere — commitment is not.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Any idiot can make a decision with perfect information.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Commitment is a superpower, not a sacrifice.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“No decision is a decision.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“Obstacles not of your own choosing are a privilege.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“If you are involved, you are responsible.”
Words from Reza
Words from Reza
“You are the prize.”
Words from Reza
In focus
Thoughts on risk, judgment, commitment, impact and freedom.

PRESS
Ambitious people often make this career mistake, Harvard expert says—it can silently block your success
Ambitious people often find themselves succumbing to the “curse of optionality,” says six-time business founder and Harvard Business School senior lecturer Reza Satchu. They try so hard to keep all of their options open that they underperform or have decision paralysis and do nothing at all, he says.
By committing to one of your options, almost regardless of what it is, you can buck the trend. “Actually doing the thing that others won’t do,” Satchu tells CNBC Make It, gives you a “massive advantage” and can lead to accomplishing your goals.
Read more

PRESS
What Alix Earle knows about business that many of my Harvard Business School students don’t get
When Alix Earle’s publicist called to ask whether she could come to Harvard Business School—to sit in on my class, be the subject of a case study, and speak to some of the sharpest young minds in business—my first instinct was to decline. I pulled up her TikTok. I saw someone having fun, looking glamorous, going to parties. I hung up and called my daughters, and they didn’t hesitate: “Dad, you want her there.”
Read more

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