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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 17 hours ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-12 01-59
Sometimes the problem is solved simply by reframing it entirely
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 17 hours ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-12 01-59
That tendency nudges people toward the path of greatest resistance, often creating needless hardship. What if situations were framed around elegance rather than strain…
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
September 2006 — Returned to the U.S. in an oddly Zen-like state after systematically dismantling assumptions about what’s possible
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Removing the bottleneck increased profits by 40% and triggered existential terror about what to do with freed-up time
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
July 2004–2005 — Four weeks abroad stretched into eight, then into an indefinite experiment in automation and experimental living with email limited to one hour each Monday.
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
June 2004 — To avoid spiraling into reclusive obsession, everything was upended and the first one-way ticket out of JFK to Europe was purchased. Landing in London with plans for…
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Steps were taken to simplify and become expendable; both deals ultimately collapsed, and attempts by others to replicate the product led to multimillion-dollar losses
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Winter 2004 — Approached by an infomercial production company and a conglomerate interested in acquiring BrainQUICKEN.
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
A one-week family “vacation” to Florence turned into 10 hours a day in an Internet café freaking out—sh*t balls. Began teaching Princeton students how to build profitable companies
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
2002–2003 — BrainQUICKEN LLC scaled to more than $40K per month instead of per year, but the workload ballooned to 12+ hour days seven days a week, creating intense misery.
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Two weeks and $5,000 in credit-card debt later, the first batch was in production and a website was live—fired one week after that
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Time was spent aggressively surfing the web until researching a sports nutrition business revealed that manufacturing and design could be outsourced.
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Fall 2001 — After a year of 12-hour days, discovered being the second-lowest-paid person at the company.
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Spring 2001 — At TrueSAN Networks, growth from 15 to 150 employees accompanied managerial directives like “start with A” and dial for dollars. Questioning the tactic was met with “Because I say so”
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Despite a hot job market, remained jobless until persistence—32 consecutive emails to one start-up CEO—resulted in a sales role
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Fall 2000 — Returned to Princeton with confidence restored and thesis still undone. A peer sold a company for $450 million, prompting a move west to California with billion-dollar ambitions.
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Returned defeated, learned kickboxing, and won the national championship four weeks later with an unorthodox style
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Spring 1999 — In three months, accepted and quit roles as a Berlitz curriculum designer and an analyst at a small political asylum research firm. Attempted to launch a gym chain…
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Family reactions ranged from convinced the departure was permanent to “no need to be a drama queen,” while the student assumed life was over
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timoard (46)in LeoFinance • 3 days ago
RE: LeoThread 2025-12-09 01-24
Fall 1998 — A major thesis dispute and fear of becoming an investment banker prompted an academic withdrawal notification to the registrar.
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