Basecamp was the best business idea he will ever have: lightning is not caught twice, and a founder's second idea is rarely as good as the first.

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• A founder pitched as having a great deal to say on a topic has almost never written anything about it, and the absence is the tell. GOGergely Orosz27 Aug 2026similar wording
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