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Here are (some) steps founders can take to get reporters to write about their companies (a thread). (Caveat: this thread is not exhaustive and really applies only to me)
✡️ Jon Shieber ✡️twitter.comQuickly, though, I cared quite a bit—about the mission, my coworkers, the writers we worked with. First of all, I couldn’t fake liking the people. And while work-life balance would’ve been pleasant, you have to get in the pressure cooker if you want to grow. Let a place shape you, at least sip the kool-aid. My generation is well-practiced in the... See more
via jasmine sun
“If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this: We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented, and we genuinely like to invent. Most companies are not those things. They are focused on the competitor, rather than the customer. They prefer to be close followers rather than inventors, because it’s... See more
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48 smart things Sam Walton wrote in his autobiography:
1. It never occurred to me that I might lose. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
2. We just got after it and *stayed* after... See more