Derek Sivers says a billion dollars wouldn't change how he runs things. As companies grow, they develop a gravity that shifts focus from serving clients to serving the company itself. The company should exist to serve people, not the other way around.
Derek Sivers.
A musician, an author, an entrepreneur, the founder of CD Baby, which revolutionized the way independent musicians distributed their music. Derek is a deep thinker, a modern day philosopher in the world of business, and his insights are both profound, but also refreshingly practical.
You could literally put a billion dollars into my bank account and I would not do anything differently. In fact, I'd probably just go like, ugh, great. Now I have to give that away too. It was so frustrating. When a company grows to a certain size, it starts to have its gravity. Where it's like when the business was small, the focus was entirely on our clients, about 50 employees or so. The gravity turned from our clients to the company itself. Ideally, yeah, we don't matter. Here we are in service of these people.
