founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
More companies die of indigestion than starvation.
-Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett Packard
uncomfortably honest
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they... See more
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
the strategy was to do the work
I can’t imagine anything less interesting in business than maximizing shareholder value. Yet this is what public companies are pressured — if not legally required — to do. A lot of non-public companies follow the same path towards performance and results.
To take it further, maximization as a concept just isn’t interesting to me. I don’t care about... See more
To take it further, maximization as a concept just isn’t interesting to me. I don’t care about... See more
A Rant Against Maximization
Incredible book for founders
Hardest part about startups is maintaining that childlike excitement that first got you started
build things you want for yourself vs. just thinking about traditional ‘factory’ VC