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I think that’s the wrong question too

Even growth should be questioned holistically when you can literally make a few million dollars once and be done with it

instead of every quarter while pretending that making the same or lesser amounts are disasters

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Few million dollars split by how many people? A small startup that provided a decent exit for me was sold for 50M EUR. I got 100K from that - the company had over 1000 shareholders. That's not really life changing amount of money, was barely enough to get a mortgage for my small apartment (30% of the price).

BTW the company was failing. If we didn't sell we'd have 0 very soon. It's really not as easy as "well let's just grow I guess".

Ideally just 1

If thats not your circumstance then it doesn't apply to you

I’m not the person that thinks there is anything wrong with selling shares, or failure, by the way

I would just rule out very many ideas to pursue at all, and encourage others to do the same.

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