What Jason Cohen thinks about ambition

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear, and the author of the long-running startup blog A Smart Bear.

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25 Jan 2026

Our reading"If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.

Their wordsAnd so the not growing part, what I like to say is maybe the you and if you are not growing, you're dying is you the person as opposed to you the company.

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