Warren Buffett is usually considered the greatest investor of all time but one thing that is often overlooked is how much his longevity has helped. Yes, he is worth $110 billion. Yes, he’s compounded money at a 22% annualized rate. But he also started investing in stocks at age 10 and is now 91. That is 81 years of compounding. By the way, 95% of his wealth accrued after age 65. If he had started investing at 3 Read more
"That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard”, said Bill Campbell in typical fashion, to an employee in a meeting. Back then, he was a tyrannical boss, and it took a near mutiny from his staff for him to see the error of his ways and change. According to this book, he was a classic “diminisher”. He was not yet the legendary mentor to Silicon Valley CEOs like Steve Jobs and the Google founde Read more
[By Mark Kosoglow , former VP for Sales and the first employee.] Today Outreach has a valuation of $4.4 Billion. March 2016. Outreach hit $3M in ARR. 3 competitors hot on our tail. Getting to $10M so we could raise a Series A was becoming nerve wracking as our runway was shrinking fast. What'd we do? 1. We picked a competitor to pick on - We targeted ToutApp, Inc. (Acquired by Marketo, Inc.) . Their Read more