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Many say starting a new company is hard, then there are people who say making it successful is hard, and then there are people who say scaling it is hard. But I say 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 is hard. It took Uber 14, Airbnb 14, Amazon 9

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Context matters though. These companies had massive addressable markets and clear unit economics that would work at scale. Today's funding environment is completely different. VCs aren't writing blank checks anymore. The "grow first, profit later" playbook only works if you can actually achieve meaningful scale.

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