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30 Sep, 8 tweets, 3 min read
I need your help hitting a goal.

Tomorrow is the 6 mo anniversary of when I actively started tweeting.

My goal was 50k followers, I'm at 48.8k

If you enjoy following me & find my content valuable + inspiring, please RT and share this with a few friends.

Thank you!
I tweet about entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, growth mktg, dtc and other stuff (e.g., parenting toddlers!).

Every week, I tweet one cool thread about a "Bootstrapped Giant".

Here are a few examples:
And the one that started it all (as a random experiment one day!)

More about me:

I'm an entrepreneur, bootstrapped @ampush to ~$25M in revenue before selling a stake to @RedVentures.

I founded @GatewayX this year to live my purpose/WHY: to help others grow/learn to be the best versions of themselves using entrepreneurship as the canvas.
Follow me @jspujji to join my fledgling entrepreneurial community!

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1 Oct
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Here’s the true story of how he’s bootstrapping a 100 year startup and giving it all back 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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His friend from IIT, Tony Thomas, had written a rough draft of new networking software and needed help selling it.

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A 27 year old dyslexic ADHD deadbeat turns $10k into $600,000,000

Here’s the incredible story of how he went from his parents basement to building a massive CPG startup in less than 5 years 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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He was the classic 3rd born child: everything handed down to him, no respect from his siblings, and a fearless risk taker.

To make matters worse, he was a dyslexic D student.

But there was one thing that set him apart…
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He started to hustle too: selling anything he could. Beanie babies, baseball cards and even… weed.

After barely graduating college, he joined the family biz.

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A 39 year old former farm boy turns $250,000 into a $13 BILLION company

The result?

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Here's the unbelievable story of the largest tech company you've never heard of 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
1/ David Steward was born in 1951 in Clinton, MO in a family of 8 kids.

His family’s small farm lacked plumbing and his morning chore was milking cows.

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Those two lessons changed his life…
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Starting a business can be painful.

You feel lost 97% of the time - the ups and downs are gut-wrenching.

I wish I had a cheat sheet of principles for my first startup.

So I wrote one.

Here are 40+ learnings about entrepreneurship I wish I knew sooner:
1/ Tenacity is the most important trait for building a company.

It is not intelligence, creativity or salesmanship, but sheer determination.

Wake up every day and push the ball forward.
2/ Making decisions is hard; but a 'bad decision' outweighs no decision every time.

As you learn, you will even start to make good decisions.
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It fails.

The crazy part?

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He learned business and entrepreneurship hiding under the kitchen table while his mom ran a home salon.

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His father died of a heart attack shortly after that, and the family lost their primary income...
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