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My First Million · April 6, 2023 · 60m
The Sweaty Startup: How to Build a Boring $10M+ Business
Nick Huber on building a self-storage empire through sweaty, boring work that nobody on Twitter wants to do. The anti-tech-startup thesis: service businesses in unglamorous industries have lower competition, higher margins, and more predictable returns.
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Huber: the tech startup ecosystem is an environment that makes glamorous businesses (apps, AI) the path of least resistance. By choosing boring businesses (storage, laundromats, plumbing), you exit that environment and enter one with less competition.
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Huber: choosing to build a storage business instead of a tech startup required courage because his peers mocked him. The social environment punishes non-conformity. Each mockery survived made the next contrarian decision easier.
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