Successful People
"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions."
"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions."
I heard this from Qi Lu; I'm not sure what the source is. It got me thinking, though--the most successful founders do not set out to create companies. They are on a mission to create something closer to a religion, and at some point it turns out that forming a company is the easiest way to do so.
In general, the big companies don't come from pivots, and I think this is most of the reason why.
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Avneesh is the founder of Permissionless Academy, a platform for young adults to build leverage using AI.
He spent a decade inside the K-12 system building Schoolze (now Schoolze Labs) before concluding that meaningful education reforms have to come from outside it. Today he runs six AI-native and legacy products solo, with agents at the core and no traditional team!
He writes about education, agency, and building leverage in the age of AI!
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