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$20M/year & 100% bootstrapped In 2019, they were called "IDIOTS" as they were building a product that already existed. In 2023, their business is better than most VC-backed startups. Thread 🧵

💩 Repeatable processes are undiscoverable. Since there are no required (or even desired) attributes and relations, there is nothing to nudge folks into a predictable workflow. You have to explain each newcomer that “we decompose Epic into Stories, estimate these Stories, and plan into Sprints” — a flat network cannot guide them.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it . . . if you think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing

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"We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marriage seems premature. But searching for a soul... See more

I believe that the solutions to the problems created by technology is not less technology, but better technology.