How A Solo Business Beat A VC-Backed Startup
Why going big can lead to your extinction
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4 min readMay 5, 2021
How do you raise millions of dollars, delight millions of customers only to be sold to a bootstrapped competitor for $35K?
This is the real story of two sites: Pinboard and Delicious. It first caught my attention because I love underdog stories. As I went down the rabbit hole, I realized it…
