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Didn't consider this for many reasons: 1. Most importantly, we didn’t have the talent internally to do that. Running the biz requires a set of generalist biz skills and the company…

Gotcha and thanks. I just started getting a few texts from friends saying 'your post is on HN' and was confused. Prob been 10 years since anything I wrote has been on here so was a…

Thanks. Dad was a specialist on the engineering/science side. He learned and grinded enough over time to become quite dangerous on the business stuff. I guess he'd be what some fol…

Unfortunately, didn’t have the talent internally to do that. Running the biz required a set of generalist biz skills and the company was mostly specialists.

I set this blog up 24 hours ago and just started moving old writings to it and still have another 200ish to go. So the honest answer is I don’t know. Tbh, getting on HN today was c…

Hi, Having founded and run CB Insights certainly helped mostly cuz I had some sense of where to focus. In this case, we had product-market fit to use a tech term. My dad's product …

Thank you. I don't think there is an Indian social contract but having been born and brought up here in the USA, I'd be talking out of my a$$ on that topic :) This was maybe more o…

Author here 1. He died suddenly so would have been a good thing to explore and do with time. It certainly would have made my life easier :) 2. Building a business that is small to …

Hi - author here. This is a big question tbh and the lack of a succession plan is a function of many things: 1. This was my dad's baby. He loved the engineering and the science of …

The analysis largely holds tbh even if the ARR is higher. At some point, euphoric private market valuations don't hold when there are public comps (of which there are many for Airt…

Downturns cure prosperity-induced blindness very quickly.

Love this idea. And congrats Alex - CB Insights Mafia! Things that I think folks (aka me) would find interesting: 1. Impressions/views on tech markets (what they're entering, their…