3 leadership lessons from a 22 year old founder

Nick Guthman
4 min readMay 10, 2018

Over the past 10 months, I’ve been leading a team of 10 to build a new civic engagement startup called Blue Future. Getting seed funding was a dream come true, yet it’s been quite the learning curve to execute the project.

Here are three things I’ve learned, and I hope these lessons will help other young people find meaning and success as they follow their dreams.

1. Wake up with a burning passion to be successful

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Nick Guthman

progressive political organizer, hand-made pasta maker