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Embedded Growth Obligations in Startups

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Dave Friedman
Apr 04, 2021
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Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome. — Charlie Munger

Our society is shot through with embedded growth obligations

Eric Weinstein popularized the notion of embedded growth obligations. He argues that many of our society’s institutions embed unrealistic growth obligations in their operating models. Because the institutionalists who run …

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