Revenue being the most misleading number in business, versus what you actually keep, reframes a comparison I've made against bigger operations more times than I'd like to admit. Smaller and yours turns out to be a very different equation than smaller and someone else's.
You nailed the thing most people never see. Revenue is vanity, margin is sanity. Nobody prices in the stress. Complexity builds a machine that ends up owning you back.
Revenue being the most misleading number in business, versus what you actually keep, reframes a comparison I've made against bigger operations more times than I'd like to admit. Smaller and yours turns out to be a very different equation than smaller and someone else's.
You nailed the thing most people never see. Revenue is vanity, margin is sanity. Nobody prices in the stress. Complexity builds a machine that ends up owning you back.
Yeah,build a one-person empire using some big tech ai so that big tech ai can steal your idea and make it a feature in its next version. Go on, genius
Thank you for this. The point about complexity really stayed with me.
A creator business should not just make money. It should protect the freedom, energy, and judgment that made the creator start in the first place.
Low complexity may be the real luxury.
Should ?