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Barrett: Founders must follow a playbook for single-company success, not VC portfolios
“And I think that as an entrepreneur, we don't have a portfolio. We have one company. We need to make it work, and so I think we need to follow a playbook For how to make your company succeed, not how to make your VC's portfolio succeed.”
Barrett: High Headcount Growth Signals Inability to Solve Problems Scalably
“Hiring is a solution to a problem. The more hiring you do means the bigger problems you have. And so it means you couldn't solve them in a more creative and scalable way.”
Barrett: Profit is essential for startups to achieve scale and sustainability
“And I think the only way to achieve a broad scale and a long-term sustainability is profit.”
Barrett: An IPO is just a state change to get capital, not an exit
“I think that an IPO for a truly successful company is just a state change. It actually doesn't really mean anything too much to the company overall. It's just a way to get money.”
Barrett: Great startup ideas must look terrible at first
“Everyone wants a good idea, but the challenge of good ideas is they have to look terrible. Like, if it didn't look terrible, it wouldn't be a good idea. It would just be the thing that everyone does. And so a good idea is something that no one else is doing.”
Barrett: Business complexity is mostly invented jargon to justify roles
“Business is not nearly as hard as people make it out to be. I think most of the complexity that people experience is sort of invented complexity. It's a bunch of jargon for people to sort of justify their roles”
Barrett: Founders should work in secret until success cannot be hidden
“I think work hard in secrets because it keeps your failures private, and they're hard enough in private, but they're really hard when they're public. And so just work hard. Don't say anything to anyone until you are such a success that you just can't hide it a…”