Abraham: Founders financially outperform by focusing on a single moonshot startup
Jack Abraham · 3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic · Oct 8, 2021 · at 55:51
Atomic founder Jack Abraham reflects on whether running a venture studio generates more wealth than dedicating oneself to a single high-growth startup.
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“I do think probably you can do better by just focusing on one, like if you had one thing that was gonna go to the moon that you can probably do financially better, just going all in on that thing, at least in the short term. I don't know in the long term, because in the long term, if you build a company that builds companies, What's the value of that? I don't know.”
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