long-term thinking
musings on long-term thinking in a shortsighted world. we overestimate what we can do in a year, underestimate what we can do in 10 kinda thing.
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long-term thinking
The fact is, star brands take time to grow. Take some of the small makeup companies we have acquired recently, like Bliss and Urban Decay. When we bought them, they were little start-ups run by their founders—very simple businesses, but with a lot of originality in the products. So now we know we must nurture them until they have some history. But
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Short-term vs Long-term - The I.G.Y. Foundation
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It took 4.5 years and ~$1bn raised for OpenAI to launch GPT-3, which was their first PMF product.
That breaks every “rule” in the startup world, around mvp and being capital light pre-pmf.
Goes to show you that you have to define your own rules to get outsized success.
immadtwitter.comOur modern world seeks to focus us towards the short term and praises quarterly growth. But in the real world, away from high frequency ledger entries and global capital flows. It takes 100-120 years for an oak tree to grow from seed to full canopy height. It takes three human generations to grow a tree.
Redefining ambition through patience: Todd Masonis's journey from tech success with Sean Parker to founding award-winning Dandelion Chocolate
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And that's why recently I've been looking for someone that's ambitious, but just has a very different relationship with time, is okay waiting for things. That's how I met Todd.
Todd Masonis is the founder of Dandelion Chocolate In his previous life as a college student at Stanford Todd started a tech company with none other than the Sean Parker
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the biggest surprise is that the most enduring companies are not mega companies. most of them have under 300 employees.
Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).
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