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You and those employees can quit and start their own business and you can capture 100% of that value for yourselves.

If you don't want to do that, doesn't that admit the company is providing that value, not you?

For example, I know a top salesman at Microsoft. He'd call up a customer, drop in, get ushered right in to see the CEO, and close another sale.

One day, he decided to capture that value he was provided by working for a startup. He did not close a single sale the entire year. He could not get an appointment with any CEO. He finally quit and got his old job back at Microsoft.



Microsoft has produced a lot of people who made gobs of cash at Microsoft, and left to form startups for the easy money. Only to get a very rude shock about how hard it is to make money with a company.




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