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The $9 Billion Warning Every Founder Scaling Past $1M Needs To Hear
Brett Hurt has sold companies to IBM, taken one public on NASDAQ, and watched ServiceNow absorb his last one. He is telling you, on the record, that none of it made him happy.
That is not a humble brag. It is a warning shot, and it lands differently coming from a man who has spent forty seven years writing code, six times as a founder, and who now backs more than 150 startups alongside his wife Debra.
The conversation starts where every founder conversation is starting in 2026: Elon Musk told The Economist in July that money won't matter by 2036. Ryan asks Brett to place himself on the doom…
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