A business that “gets small again” is a business reduced to the level of its owner’s personal resistance to change – its owner’s comfort zone. (works and waits for something positive to happen)
From https://sive.rs/book/EMythRevisited
Tag: Startups
How to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels – YouTube
Classic. slightly related to this note
Company stock you can’t sell is useless
One company wanted to acquire [nomadlist] for $8M [of their] stock and I ask them “can I sell it (the stock)?” And they reply “Not on Nasdaq; maybe on the second market”
“Stock is useless”
His argument is that many Startup founders are not really rich. They are venture-backed and get payed in stock that cannot be exchanged for money.
References:
- levelsio’s interview clip in How to Get Rich as a Startup Founder (and How Not To)