Business Building
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Business Building
How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen
andrewchen.com
One of the biggest reasons it gets harder to do new things as you get older is that new things are generally undignified at first (indeed, this is an excellent heuristic for discovering them) and the older you get, the more dignified you're expected to be.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comSomething I told 9 yo: If you're a maker, resist being told what to do by people who aren't.
Paul Grahamx.comI think we have so many examples of assholes starting businesses, and if they’re the majority of examples, we’re only going to have shitty businesses. I want to see people with very specific perspectives and opinions on how to manifest things into the world. More people should take business personally.
I think we are trying to build a company that serves the people that use it rather than serves the company that we founded.
Ben Thompson • An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact
You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating:
- someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold
- someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster
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Birkenstock IPO’d today at a ~$8B valuation.
Its CEO Oliver Reichert did a massive turnaround in the past decade: sales 5x’d from $125m in 2012 to $1.3B in 2022.
The wildest part: he has zero background in footwear or fashion.
Prior to taking over the top job... See more