Bend over backwards for customers.
Deal with disrespectful partners.
Take investments from folks who don't have the same vision as you do and bend the terms to their liking.
How you know you've made it:
You get to stop doing business with assholes.
No asshole clients.
No asshole partners.
No asshole investors.
Bend over backwards for customers.
Deal with disrespectful partners.
Take investments from folks who don't have the same vision as you do and bend the terms to their liking.
And you can start firing the bad customers.
Breaking up with the bad partners.
And buying out the bad investors.
F U money is the next phase...
It happens a few million later when you become one of the assholes.
Tip:
Get F U money but don't become an asshole.
When we start, we have none. Others have it all.
You have no negotiation power because they have everything YOU need and YOU are a commodity.
Not just anyone can do what you can do. So you can negotiate more for yourself.
You aren't a commodity anymore.
And you set the terms and the other person doesn't get to act like an asshole.
Clients need you more than you need them.
Partners need you more than you need them.
CAPITAL becomes a commodity.
Cash needs you more than you need cash. And investors lose the leverage and you gain the leverage.
Thats when you have an opportunity to carve out better terms and more ownership.
And even more money.
And the snowball continues to roll down the hill.
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In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.
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