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Then don’t go public. Accept that you cannot grow at the same speed and focus on deep roots and fanatical customers
by ticviking 3y ago
Then don’t go public.
Accept that you cannot grow at the same speed and focus on deep roots and fanatical customers
- Joker_vD 3y agoDoes that ever work? After all, an enterprise that cannot grow at the same speed is effectively shrinking, isn't it?
- adambyrtek 3y ago37signals (and others) proved that a different approach is possible.
- lawn 3y agoWhy does it have to grow? It can also be stagnant, which is totally acceptable as well.
- waboremo 3y agoYou can't really be stagnant due to competition. Not unless you're deep into some niche that's difficult to get started in or stick around.
- eulers_secret 3y agoYeah, it can work. Valve is private and basically owns the pc game distribution market. Even competing agains industry titans like MS. I’m not sure I know another example, so maybe it’s very rare.
- xctr94 3y agoA few companies in tech have plenty of goodwill, even if not all are privately owned: RedHat (currently burning theirs), Mozilla, 37signals, Khan Academy, Mapbox, Komoot, DuckDuckGo, Brave, etc. Not all these have a viable business model, but they’re not obsessed with growth and brokering user data.