The sale of a company is a complex process, and like all complex sales, having long-term relationships in place beforehand is critical to getting the best outcome.

David Ogilvy on why there is *always* opportunity for new businesses: "Once every few years a great new agency is born. It is ambitious, hard working, full of dynamite. It gets accounts from soft old agencies. It does great work. The years pass. The founders get rich and

I notice that multiple conflicts that resulted in millions of casualties in India, Bangladesh, etc are missing.

Love this model, and there's a track record of this working out well. Sridhar Vembu bootstrapped his way to a billion dollar business building cheaper versions of Salesforce, Hubspot, Google Docs, etc. with Zoho - and even more impressively, he did it while rocking a lungi.

We’re the richest people in the country after a single generation. We’re not victims

Econ 101, class is in session at the WEF. Your professor is quirky, swears on occasion, and doesn't give a damn what the other professors think of him.

All of the critiques essentially come down to not trusting people: to make their own decisions, to understand that some of the information won’t be accurate (and that they need to verify), and to think through nuanced choices on their own. Same arguments that support censorship.

Rapid growth can kill a small business much more quickly than contraction. Reminding myself of #9 daily right now.

Found myself agreeing violently with this post, then clicked over to Mitya Smusin's bio and realized we run the exact same kind of business (software consulting).

Always surprises me to realize that Indian Americans are among the most liberal in the US, despite being the highest earners.

You're walking around in the sunshine more. And you're happy, because you're on vacation in Italy. That's the 'magic'.

Most execs had their first AI experience using ChatGPT. So they are spending most of their R&D budget building 500 versions of a chatbot. There are an infinite number of things they could be building that would provide more ROI with significantly less risk.

Code will be disposable. Context will be more valuable than ever. When vanilla-flavored software becomes trivial to create, the consulting mindset will become more important than the SaaS mindset.

My oldest is hearing back from colleges, and well-meaning family & friends have been checking in to find out where he's being accepted. I'm shifting into full-on annoying dad mode, trying to make my kids understand that where they get in is so much less important than whether

Cheers to every VC who basically laughed us out of the room for pitching our AI platform+services business three years ago. Especially the ones with 'contrarian' in their bio.

First book I've read in a long while just for the pure fun of it, highly recommended.