I’m starting to think that one type of remarkable career — and certainly the most interesting type — comes from finding an earned secret and then exploiting the hell out of it for the good part of 2-3 decades.
Mark Leonard of Constellation: vmsfund.com/news/message-p
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There are other examples …
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Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria, who built their investing career around ‘scale efficiencies shared’.
I wrote about them here:
commoncog.com/blog/take-a-si
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Doesn’t this pattern apply almost exclusively to investing? I’m trying to think about other areas where you can apply this to a large effect and not coming up with any
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I guess the AirBnB founders and the Shopify story as well.
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For some strange reason, Shopify managed to grow without serious competition for much of its early life. You can hear the @AcquiredFM guys ponder this (they riff on Magento at the beginning, another non-serious competitor):
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