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The Comparison Machine
Why nine figures never closes the loop.
How it works
- 1Worth collapsed into a single number, always relative to someone else's number.
- 2The machine has no exit condition.
- 3Founder takeaway: pick a second metric you actually respect, and track it as seriously as revenue.
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