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RT Eugene Zolotarenko Found this random photo from my first job in a grocery store warehouse. I was 17, in a foreign country, just learning Polish, working weekends, and studying at uni during the week. If you had told me back then that one day I’d be building a $300k MRR product and working from around the world, I wouldn’t have believed you. But that’s where it started. Not with the big vision or perfect plan. Just with the mindset to keep going and eventually make it work.
I'll never raise VC funds again for my startups ever ❌ not because I hate VCs - some of them are great people but the math just doesn't work for what I'm building here's why the math never works for builders like me: - say a VC raises a $100M fund - they'd need to return 3x to their investors - that's min $300m from one fund with maybe 20 bets - so every single company they back needs to have a shot at a billion-dollar outcome. that's not a preference, that's a structural requirement - now if Revid does $1M MRR, that's life-changing money for me but for a VC fund, it's a rounding error - the only way they make money is through a big fat exit. acquisition, IPO, or another round at a higher valuation so someone else can take the risk off their hands 🤯 our incentives are completely misaligned from day one, and when incentives are misaligned, pressure follows raising forces you to grow at a pace that you and the market aren't ready for you hire fast, burn fast, pivot fast, and die fast trying to hit a number someone else wrote on a whiteboard meanwhile I wake up every morning and decide what to build, who to hire, what to charge no board meeting, no quarterly targets I didn't set, and no one asking why I didn't grow 3x this year Revid, Outrank, SuperX, PostSyncer, Feather - all profitable, all mine 🚀 the portfolio just crossed $1m mrr and the best part isn't the numbers it's that I feel completely free ☺️ free to move fast, change direction, double down, or slow down - whatever feels right no one wrote that on a whiteboard for me staying small and profitable keeps you alive long enough to actually figure things out that's not a consolation prize - that's the whole game, at least for me 😇
