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Building a great company Nick Franklin Founder & CEO at ChartMogul - The Startup CEO Show

19 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube interview in which Nick Franklin (founder & CEO of ChartMogul) argues that building a truly great company takes a long time — he suggests ~10 years as a minimum — and cites OpenAI as an example of a long-term project that only recently became famous despite long origins.

I think to build anything really great, it takes a long, long time, like to build a great company. I think 10 years is just that's the minimum. That's like the table stake to build a solid company, right. For a lot of businesses like, even the businesses like OpenAI, which is like this runaway once in a every decade success. It's only just getting famous now, but it was probably started more than 10 years ago.