Startup Dominance Relies On Unique One-Time Tricks Analyst Says
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at the risk of totalizing the world into comms, every company that becomes "TimelineNative"/consensus-ascendant exploits a trick that only works once. we're willing to believe ramp is all IMO-sickos working until 5am but probably not a second company, each must stand alone
you simply cannot have a firm that attempts to ape the soul of another. there cannot be a second firm of purely IMO winners that work 24 hour days, even if that is physically true, the soul of the firm cannot define itself as a mirror of another, but must strike out alone
and the people inside The Firm begin to inhabit traits that exist purely as expressions of the true soul of the firm. Corgi people all look exhausted, Cognition are all fast thinkers/talkers, Stripe people say "overdetermined" and hand you graphs, ramp kids make the number go
on the median: early stage companies should not exist. you are undercomped and overworked to attempt to break through the firmament and build somethign new in the world. the only way this works is through a series of hyperstitions-"we are the kind of people that do X but not Y"