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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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29 Oct
At 27, she took her $5,000 life savings, a good idea and tons of hustle to build a BILLION dollar business.

The Crazy Part?

She had almost no prior experience in business.

This story never gets old 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
1/ Sara was born in 1971 to an Artist Mom and Attorney Dad.

Her dad made it a point to ask weekly at the dinner table: “What did you fail at?”

He drilled into her that if you are not failing, you are not trying

Sara had early entrepreneurial instincts…
2/ A hustler from the start, she was always coming up with “kid businesses”:

Sold special charm socks at school.
Ran the neighborhood haunted house.
And later started a babysitting service.

At 16, she faced a life altering tragedy.
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27 Oct
Leadership is hard.

One of the hardest parts is delegation.

How much guidance do you give? When do you do it yourself? When/How to track others to-dos?

As a young leader, I wish I had a cheat sheet for delegation.

So I wrote one.

Read this 🧵 to accelerate your career:
1/ First, the biggest delegation mistake I see leaders make: either 'abdicating' or 'micromanaging'

Abdicating is when you hand over a task/responsibility and disappear assuming it's getting done.

Micromanaging is directing every little thing your report does.

Which do you do?
2/ Probably both!

But that depends on:

1) The persons seniority
2) their level of skill for a given task
3) the situation at hand.

The two tools I use to help me do this well:

Ladder of Leadership (LL) and

Task Relevant Maturity (TRM)

Here's how they work:
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26 Oct
On Feb 10th, I co-founded a business.

Totally bootstrapped.

Today, it crossed $2M in ARR and is growing 25%+ per month and profitable.

And it was all thanks to Twitter.

Here’s the story:
This thread tells the backstory as of May 25th… but things got even crazier…
I wrote the above thread very early into my twitter journey.

It took me 20 mins and @aschwags3 quickly reviewed it.

I thought it would get us a few leads… I was wrong.
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22 Oct
Two college friends turned a $10 domain name into 25 BILLION dollars.

Completely bootstrapped.

From $0 to $400 million revenue in 9 years.

And now, going toe-to-toe with Amazon.

Here’s the story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
1/ Niraj Shah and Steve Conine became best friends at Cornell engineering in the late 90s.

Both had entrepreneurial families, but neither had considered that path themselves.

Senior year, they both took an entrepreneurship class “for fun”

It ended up being life changing…
2/ They were the only team that built their biz plan around this new thing called “the internet”

Their idea was simple: help businesses build websites.

They dove in after college and built the web agency to nearly 40 people.

In their early 20s, they got offered $10M to sell…
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20 Oct
A Puerto Rican Entrepreneur couldn’t speak English until 18.

He went on to bootstrap a biz worth BILLIONS (11 figures!)

The crazIEST part?

He survived a famous plane crash.

Here are 12 things I’ve learned from Ric Elias, the most underrated entrepreneur of our generation:
Lesson 1: You own your business, your business doesn’t own you

In 2017, I was feeling stuck after many years of running Ampush.

Ric encouraged me to use my work for personal growth + ask my team to do the same.

He reminded me that as the CEO/founder I could change anything
Lesson 2: Culture is what you tolerate.

No matter how hard I look, I can't find a better definition of culture.

If you allow complacency, people will stop growing.

If you tolerate people not knowing their numbers, they won’t know them.
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15 Oct
A short order cook and an insurance salesman turned a $700 loan to into an $800,000,000+ empire.

The crazy part?

They invented fast food in the process.

This is the wild story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
1/ Walt Anderson was a small time cook with a few restaurants in Kansas back in 1915.

He had one item which didn’t exist anywhere else:

Thin ground beef patties and a special bread baked to be round and soft.

Sales were booming, so he searched for a partner to expand…
2/ He found Billy Ingram.

The consummate salesman loved the dish: a combination of beef, grilled onion and Walt’s innovative bun made to order was genius.

But it needed a great name:

The Slider.

Billy was obsessed with ideas to streamline and scale…
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