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...and have a strategy. I call this planning, and we like to do planning with our founders. And we like to say is hope is not a plan. So if you hope you're gonna double revenue, that's great, but let's have a plan and let's have a process for making tha
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I like to anytime I do anything, if I think I'm ever gonna do it again, I like to put it in a recipe that I can find and pull out and then and never have to do the thinking again, make it a shortcut. So any company and I started doing this twenty fiv
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...I see founders get really wrapped around the axle on this because they think, oh my gosh, I've gotta be a Goldman Sachs analyst who's a whiz bang Excel person. And at at seed, pre seed, even like series a sometimes, what the investors are really look
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the reason why I wanna go and buy another business and that's cash producing is because then I can do more good in all the other things I do. Yes. Yes. Right? And the other thing, and this is I feel as an entrepreneur, there's there's I've been on tw
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having the right aligner that you're willing, board and investors are aligned with the leadership and the broader team around, we're gonna go for this, or what level do we extent are we gonna go for this? And I think if you're doing sort of reasonabl
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Obviously, it's scary. The phrase that I use for entrepreneurship is you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble an iron playing the way down. It's part of that sense of vertigo and impending mortality. But one of the key things for entrepreneurs is
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that's what drives a business is, like, you're constantly responding tactically and pursuing, like, where's a great opportunity to invest more in marketing, which channel, which sub channels, which sources. You can really sort of deploy capital on a
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I mean, I think, again, I can't reinforce the the importance of the planning aspect of why are you guys looking to raise, you know, $500,000,000 or bill well, it's like because we're working backwards from a very, you know, big IPO, and in order to g
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You need a different amount of capital than if you were shooting for a $3,000,000,000 company. So it doesn't mean, like, you know, if you don't hit it, you failed. Right? Because we're we're but we are giving us the highest probability of getting the
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So I always keep that in mind, the long term vision and try to retrofit that into a road map and a plan that makes it possible for the entrepreneurs to find that self reliance at some point. Yeah. That's really interesting because it you don't see th
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