What Derek Sivers thinks about startups
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books, 550+ articles, and a site at sive.rs he hand-codes and keeps free of advertising.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Derek Sivers has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsSo the idea is when you start a business, you get to make all the rules now. You can, like in this little part of the world, you get to decide how things should work. You don't have to follow norms.