Sam Parr argues that business success is a stepping stone, not the end goal. Each win builds reputation and unlocks larger opportunities. Partner early with people who already have unfair advantages, help amplify them, and you'll accumulate advantages for your next venture. The lone founder is hard mode.
One of the unfair secrets of business is the more success you have, the more it's like a platform for a bigger thing you can do next time. You just got to keep in the game. When I was really young, I used to think, oh, I could start a business and make a lot of money and then go to the beach and then that'd be like fun. That's not nearly as fun as the fact that once you've already started and successful once, now you get to do like bigger things more easily. When you're young, partner with someone else who already has an unfair advantage, help them use their unfair advantage, build something with them. Now you have all these extra unfair advantages. You could do it again. There's like this naive thing where like you're like this lone business founder. You can do that, but it's so hard. Why play the game on hard mode? Yeah, why play the game on hard mode? Every time you have a success, you now have the respect and attention and understanding of all these people who will then help you do the next thing.
