Good email from @TrevMcKendrick today https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/in_defense_of_thinking_bigger.html">https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/... - here& #39;s my Defense of Thinking (Slightly) Smaller:
In the history of many of the founders building a world-changing startup, you often find they had a smaller more "boring" success/exit that freed them from struggles of & #39;average person with a paycheck& #39; and gave them significantly more optionality. Some examples https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten">
Before building and selling http://Broadcast.com"> http://Broadcast.com  for $5.7b and buying the @dallasmavs, @mcuban built a system integrator and software reseller (literally called MicroSolutions) and sold it for $6m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban ">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark...
Steve Jobs met his co-founder Woz working on a goofy business called Blue Boxes that hacked the long distance network (no exit, but still he found Woz) https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220602 ">https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/2...
The list goes on and on (feel free to add your own here) but there is a strong pattern of founders of truly world-changing billion-dollar startups first netting $Xm by building and selling a smaller more "boring" business that enabled them to Think Bigger.
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