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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Tech industry math

It's spring break and my son started a lemonade stand.

I asked him how much lemonade he sold in the last hour.

"$3" he said.

I told him, "Here's $20 for one glass of lemonade. In one hour I'm going to come back and buy a lemonade for $1,000. You're going to take that $1,000/hr revenue - multiply it by 24 hours - then multiply it by 365 days, and tell VCs, 'I have $8.76M in run rate revenue with 99.9% net margins, and 100% of our latest cohort of customers have expanded revenue with us. You're also changing the name of your lemonade stand to 'lemon(AI)de' and incorporate it as a C Corp"

My son was holding back tears.

I said, "Doesn't it feel good to be a millionaire, bud?"

He said, "Dad I'm 4 and I don't know what any of these words are."

I said, "Welcome to life as a tech CEO - neither do I" and drove away.

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 19/04/2025

This is incredible (And also *way* too close to home)

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

something something bean dad

Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 19/04/2025

Flashback to reading Blitzscaling