24 // Small Giants

A “small giant” is a company that chooses to optimize for mojo instead of growth. Mark and Adam describe how Muse was inspired to follow this path, designing the business model, team makeup, and funding source accordingly. Plus: a digression into tender offers and the fine points of US tax law.

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• Partnership, freedom, and responsibility
• Adam Wulf
• Small Giants
• S&P 500
• Clif Bar, Whole Foods, Union Square Cafe
• Startup = Growth
• existence proof
• Signal, Panic, Vanguard
• index funds and ETFs
• Chef’s Table
• meme stocks
• Delaware C-corp
• Harrison Metal
• career capital
• revenue-based financing
• maker vs manager
• VC Math
• tender offer
• stock buyback
• dividends
• TrustCommerce
• growth stocks vs income stocks
• foundations: Mozilla, Apache, Processing, Wikimedia