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The Ultimate Startup - Ben's 1x1x1 - July 4, 2025 🚀
For those of you that are new here, every week I send what I call a 1x1x1. One thought from my week. One interesting find/tool from my week. One image from my life.
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Thought from the week
Sometimes I think about how the founding of America was basically a startup.
A group of rebels with no roadmap, no funding, and a giant superpower breathing down their necks.
They were wildly outmatched, constantly underestimated, and plagued with early-stage problems such as infighting, resource shortages, logistics nightmares, and the not-so-minor detail of trying to build a functioning country while literally being at war.
And yet, like all the best startups, they saw something others didn’t.
An opportunity.
Freedom. Self-determination. A new market for ideas, enterprise, and exploration.
A geographic position that was hard to invade and easy to trade from.
Untapped resources, land, and a population of scrappy people willing to bet everything on a better future.
Was it messy? Absolutely. Chaotic? For sure.
But the big swing they took in 1776 became the seed of something that changed the world.
So to the founders of this still-young startup called America, thank you.
You knew what all great founders eventually learn: bold declarations and a determined team can create the future.
I send one action packed email a week called a 1x1x1 covering crazy cool businesses I spot, updates on what we're building and buying, and lessons from the journey of an entrepreneur.