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Ambition & Growth - April 24
Ambition and Growth are the two requirements for achieving success in a startup.
"If our goal in life is to remain content, no ambition is sensible.”
- from the remarkable essay: Ambition & Poetry by Donald Hall.
“Startups are so hard that you can't be pointed off to the side and hope to succeed. You have to know that growth is what you're after. The good news is, if you get growth, everything else tends to fall into place. Which means you can use growth like a compass to make almost every decision you face.”
From the seminal essay Startup = Growth, by Y-Combinator Co-founder Paul Graham
Ambition is not limited to becoming the biggest company, or the most famous poet, it’s a very significant, very difficult to achieve milestone that, by design, in all likelihood will never be attained. If achieved, even to a degree, the world takes notice. Growth is progress in guiding in the right direction, along the journey of ambition.