Thank you- great feedback! I've found that being quiet about your successes gives you a longer runway to build a moat that makes it more difficult to compete with you
My belief in startups is that the only IP is execution. Ideas are cheap.
When running a business you are making hundreds of decisions a month (maybe thousands). Unless they know and can make the same ones roughly, they can't replicate your success.
Do you have an example of how not being quiet hurt your/someone else's moat?
I previously bootstrapped a business to 30M ARR and was sick of paying the "subscription tax"
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I ran into the same issues / frustrations as you when I bootstrapped my previous business to 30M ARR. I hated paying the "Stripe tax" and having vendor lock in with Stripe
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I'm a founder who run into this issue as well in the past. Stripe kicked me off for no reason and with no warning, and my startup almost died.
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