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Readwise Highlights
The company's strategy is simple. Acquire small vertical software businesses with little competition, apply best practices from past experience and repeat as often as possible.
Ryan • Mark Leonard Letters
The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email Into a $2.6 Billion Acquisition
firstround.comfirstround.comEach quarter we try to study an admirable company and discuss it with our Operating Group managers and board members. We focus on high performance conglomerates that have demonstrated at least a decade of superior shareholder returns.
Ryan • Mark Leonard Letters
Fund the life you need before you risk it for the life you want.
Nick Maggiulli • Just Keep Buying
Mark Rober: How an Ex-Nasa Engineer Became YouTube’s Coolest Science Teacher - And Is Saving the Ocean
Editors' Picksforbes.comTruth: We need to measure productivity by results, not by time spent working.
Matthew Aaron Perman • What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.”
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Focus on the IRR, not the margins. Margins are an output, not an input.