The 37signals people probably got where they are via long stretches of living the consultant life style (since they were consultants). Before things scaled, they weren't working Ferris-Four-Hour-Work-Weeks but grinding for clients.
I've been thinking about the next company I try to build a lot lately. I don't really care about being a billionaire nor do I care about emulating Zuckerberg...it's too late for me to get admitted to Harvard, much less drop out. But winding up with a fuck-you money sized exit would be nice and what I've come to believe is that it's not appreciably more work to build a $2 billion company than a $2 million one. I'll probably have to work my ass off either way, and there's still a lot of risk that either winds up a $0 million company in the end.
People can work decades to build a company that makes them a multi-thousandaire. Scale comes from businesses that scale not in proportion to hard work.
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The 37signals people probably got where they are via long stretches of living the consultant life style (since they were consultants). Before things scaled, they weren't working Ferris-Four-Hour-Work-Weeks but grinding for clients.
I've been thinking about the next company I try to build a lot lately. I don't really care about being a billionaire nor do I care about emulating Zuckerberg...it's too late for me to get admitted to Harvard, much less drop out. But winding up with a fuck-you money sized exit would be nice and what I've come to believe is that it's not appreciably more work to build a $2 billion company than a $2 million one. I'll probably have to work my ass off either way, and there's still a lot of risk that either winds up a $0 million company in the end.
People can work decades to build a company that makes them a multi-thousandaire. Scale comes from businesses that scale not in proportion to hard work.