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Valeria Sokolovska's avatar

Wow - such great examples! Thanks for sharing. Shared with my 18 years old brother as he dreams to build his startup.

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Peter Yang's avatar

Great! I love seeing young people take control of their destiny.

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Jeston Lu's avatar

Love the Shopify example - that was pretty mindblowing

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Ivan Landabaso's avatar

Great read. I still think there’s a step missing with this approach to career building. Naval’s tweet storm also changed my life positively in this direction, but it misses a big step imho.

The step = how do you get clarity on what you are most curious about + building / leveraging your “specific knowledge”. Especially in a world where you are bombarded, mostly subconsciously, with ideas that influence you towards herd behaviour. Distractions.

I’d love for you to write on this topic next!

This is my attempt at it, but it doesn’t address how to stay laser focused on curiosity + intentional specific knowledge: https://www.startupriders.com/p/14-individual-contributor-

Closest thing I’ve found is Rick Rubin’s book.

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Julie Michelle Morris's avatar

Permissionless leverage - YES!

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Laura Nistor's avatar

Thanks for sharing, Peter! These stories are so inspiring and genuine. I know it's one in a million sometimes, but the idea of people showing up for what they care about and turning things for themselves by themselves is what I love reading about.

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Aaron Marr's avatar

Awesome message!

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