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Rocketships and Slingshots


Non-obviously great startups

The not so humble brags are all over x and the press, founders and VCs saying - “0-100m in ARR faster than any company in history” and “idea to $1m in revenue in a month.” I get why these are exciting. The companies - which may have done the rocket ship thing first - lose their appeal, stop raising money, can’t get the cool meetings or the articles or tweets. You have to look for companies that didn’t radically pivot again and again, but doggedly chased down increasingly complex challenges and found ways to survive out in the space between the stars.

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