Thanks chatGPT.

First off, I’m not sure if your friends are actually not supportive. I haven’t seen anything specific from your post that says they’re jealous or anything - it could be in your head.

Secondly, as a small business owner myself, entrepreneurship can be a lonely road. But I found local or online pockets of other entrepreneurs to socialize with. It helps that we all face the same problems, and have a lot in common running a business.

I’m a member of e-commerce fuel (a DTC founder community with a $200/month membership), limited supply slack (more of a general community with agencies mixed in). There are many others too you can find if you look around. FYI e-commerce fuel and limited supply have their own podcasts too if you want a feel of the people in the communities or what they discuss.

because he’s just here to promote his agency business.

You need to achieve product market fit before any of this becomes relevant to you, but he wants to try to sell himself as the person that did the heavy lifting - when in fact he was just in more of a support role.