Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more

I suppose at the end of the day, one of my motivators for talking about the absurdity of our economic and financial systems is that I believe business and work can be prosperous without adhering to the logic those systems run on. Just because a product doesn't "scale" doesn't mean it can't be sustainable or even wildly profitable.

My best advice for founders is to treat your company as if you are unable to raise VC money. How would you become profitable? How would you build the product in the first place? Founders would do well to follow the GitHub and Atlassian path. Once you are profitable, fundraising will become one of the easiest parts of the journey rather than the har