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The Dark Truth About Startups āļø
Are you really changing the world? Or are you just delusionalā¦
Hereās a snapshot of the startup sceneās most recent high-impact unicorns:
Gymhsark ($1.4bn)Ā ā āhelping people reach their full potentialā by selling gym clothes with a shark logo on them.
Klarna ($31bn)Ā ā āa financial freedom platformā helping consumers buy sh*t they donāt need on credit.
Deliveroo (Ā£8.8bn)Ā ā ātransforming the way we eatā, helping the fat get fatter with quick-order junk food.
And then, of course, the drearyĀ B2B companies āĀ helping extremely rich companies, getĀ very slightlyĀ richer, and taking a cheeky %.
What aboutā¦poverty? climate change? mental health?
Out of the 635 startup unicorns, I found less than 5 startups working on these problems.
Does your work matter? Or are you just shuffling the cards in a zero-sum gameā¦
If youāre working at a startup or thinking about it, let me challenge your perspectiveā¦
š The full article (4 min read):Ā Dark Truth About Startups
Something To Make You Think š¤
If you stopped working, would anyone (except your colleagues) give a f*ck?
And if not, does your work actually matter?
And if not, is your work (the thing you spend ~50% of your conscious life on) really the thing you should be working on?
Or is there something else out there. Something more meaningful, more serious, more trueā¦
For me, Iāve come to the inescapable conclusion that my current work is not meaningful; and so all the money I make is going into a new charity Iāll be starting.
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Extremely Interesting Fact š¤
Iāve always wondered what the deal was with catsā needle-thin pupils.
Turns out, their pupils are very sensitive and expandable.
At night, they hyper-dilate into giant round circles, catching all available light, so they can see in the dark š
But this would be unbearable when the Suns out, so their eyes retract before they go blind, hence the need-like slits:
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