A founder credits The 4-Hour Workweek and Think Big and Kick Ass with pushing him to abandon custom web design work and build scalable software instead. Building sites for clients ate his time and profit. The books taught him automation and delegation.
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But there were two books that stuck out to me. One was "The 4-Hour Workweek," you know, by Tim Ferriss. And the other one was "Think Big and Kick Ass" by Donald Trump. And those two books right there were what created the software company that we have today. If it weren't for— like, I have goosebumps, like, getting all over my body while I'm talking about it right now because I learned for the first time how to really scale something. And I realized that what I was doing was not scalable because I was building websites for people. And even though I knew what they needed, they were wasting all of my time and profits on what they wanted.