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If you have little money and have to bootstrap and improvise to pull things together, that becomes embedded in your company’s DNA forever—so as you scale up, you maintain the frugality and efficiency that helped you survive your earliest days.

Taproot Foundation.

Outside money is Plan Z

Whatever their particular ownership structure, all of the companies guarded their equity zealously to make sure it remained in the hands of people committed to the same goals.

Successful entrepreneurs live at the opposite end of the spectrum from conventional market research.

Both Marc and Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, have read and recommend Neal Gabler’s biography of Walt Disney.

sufficiently large to be able to generate a profitable, high-growth, several-hundred-million-dollar-revenue business over a seven-to-ten-year period.

Growth alone isn’t the endgame; scaling to meet customer demand is. Above all, these upstarts prize the human touch – albeit with no physical presence – in every customer interaction and in all aspects of their business.