Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day

This is such a good read. Long – but crazy worth it.

I have highlighted the paragraph that the rest of the article supports so you can get a sense of why to dig in.

Amazing,

Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day:

For me, in strategic planning, the question in building my forecast was to flush out what I call the invisible asymptote: a ceiling that our growth curve would bump its head against if we continued down our current path. It’s an important concept to understand for many people in a company, whether a CEO, a product person, or, as I was back then, a planner in finance.

Silly angel stuff

I see this a lot – companies either continually raising from angels or even putting together large seed size rounds made up of angels.

Angel rounds are not bad but do one and then get to the institutional round.

Jeff Bezos interview with Axel Springer CEO on Amazon, Trump, Blue Origin, family, regulation – Business Insider

This is so good. Every founder should stop and watch this.

The focus on the consumer above everything else is such a good lesson.

It is also just great listing to his view on criticism, making mistakes and long term planning.

And the slight work/life balance speech at the end is spot on.

Jeff is pretty amazing.

Jeff Bezos interview with Axel Springer CEO on Amazon, Trump, Blue Origin, family, regulation – Business Insider