Multiples vs Percentages

3 graphs and a few tweets

Some random thoughts for the week…

When describing growth, when do you use multiples vs percentages?

Who do you most admire?

Auren 📚 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧 @auren

who is the business person you most admire? mine: Paul Graham

The best companies get leverage as they grow

Business idea:

Auren 📚 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧 @auren

bizidea: substack for selling your time i'd pay $2k to be able to call specific people for 30 min once a quarter everyone is a personal GLG

On Secrets:

Auren 📚 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧 @auren

One of the deepest SaaS secrets is that many “SaaS” companies are actually services businesses masquerading as software businesses.

Auren 📚 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧 @auren

another secret: One of the biggest reasons people become entrepreneurs is that they are not employable … or they were passed over for promotion ... not because they actually have a desire to start a company

That feeling when you have 4 seconds left on your two-factor authenticator and wondering if you can type it in on time …
or need to wait for the next number…

Auren 📚 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧 @auren

One of the weird things about data companies historically is they often failed on one core value: veracity. As companies rely more and more on data (and build their machine learning models on data), truth is going to be even more important.