Puri: The clean-slate two-question test to evaluate your company and team
Shaan Puri · MFM #160: How to Build a Paid Community Making $20M a Year · Mar 12, 2021 · at 42:18
Sean Puri explains the mental framework he used when deciding to sell his business rather than continuing to grind purely out of momentum and inertia.
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“So this was my test. It's if this project ended tomorrow for whatever reason, the company had to fold, would I wake up tomorrow and start working on the same project? And the second question was, if the company had to dissolve the investor, you know, the company went bankrupt and I needed to go start again, would I call these same people? Like, Hey, you want to work together on the next thing? Because if I, if no, then I have the wrong people today. If yes, then I have the right people today, if I would call them again.”
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