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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
by throw_pm23 2y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
- p1esk 2y agoSam’s ambitions are way beyond “salary”.
- kevinob11 2y agoReplace salary with the thing he wants
- p1esk 2y agoMaybe he wants to make the world a better place?
- throw_pm23 2y agoMaybe :)
- willturman 2y agoIt's a quote from Upton Sinclair from an era where you generally had to have a profitable business and employees before you had investors.
- novok 2y agoThere were many ventures in the past that got investors without a current profitable going concern. Oil & mining speculation, chartering boat crews to go on exploration expeditions and more.
- Terr_ 2y agoIndeed, public investment was born from large projects where any profit would be many years off.
- fragmede 2y agoI know theres this whole joke about being pre-revenue on the Silicon Valley TV show, but getting investors in order to be able to build a business which becomes profitable after goes back a long time. Like a really long time.