Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
In this book, you'll hear the founders' stories in their own words. Here, I want to share some of the patterns I noticed. When you're interviewing a series of famous startup founders, you can't help trying to see if there is some special quality they all have in common that made them succeed. What surprised me most was how unsure the founders seeme
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When I was in grad school, the unstated assumption in most of what we were taught was that the sole point of a business (or any institution, really) was to grow. To grow, grow, grow, to as large a scale as possible. To build an empire, take over the world. My classmates — tycoons in waiting — lapped it up. “Lifestyle businesses”? Nah! Those were fo... See more
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I had a chat last night with a billion-dollar SaaS founder/CEO. He's raised $200M at a $2B valuation in 2021.
Living the high life in SF with a crazy house and a Porsche 911. On the surface, it seems like he has it all and living the dream.
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So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"
I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.
And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually, that