Building With Soul
Building companies with a soul
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Building With Soul
the goal is resonance, not scale
building and monetizing soulful businesses + brands where the goal is resonance, not scale
sari and • 65 cards
Spiritland, Listening bar, London
2019 when we got started with Linear, most SaaS websites at the time seemed to be these "Corporate Memphis" sites with vague benefit statements and weird colorful illustrations. No screenshots of the product and dark sites were very rare in B2B SaaS.
We went public, and we have more than 50 percent American investors as shareholders. Before going public, I said to them, “Are you looking for a company that grows very fast, that makes profits that are too high, in our view, quick profits? Do not invest in our company. Do you want a company that grows in a gracious way? That allows suppliers to... See more
om.co • Brunello Cucinelli
The ultimate competitive advantage is actually giving a shit about the problem you're working on. When Airbnb had just a few dozen employees, Rocket Internet raised $90 million and hired hundreds of people to clone and crush them.
Stew Fortier • Tweet
millions of dollars of funding can't compete with a company having a soul
every great institution is the extended shadow of a single person.
Kasra • Create the social spaces you want to see in the world
companies are a fingerprint of the people who make them. which begs the question: “what does a you-shaped X look like?”
Innovative Ideas fuelled by Emotional Intelligence