🎉 It's Labdoor's 10th Birthday Today!

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It's Labdoor's 10th Birthday Today!

This milestone reminded me one of my favorite blog posts ever, Sam Altman’s The days are long but the decades are short.

That’s exactly how our Labdoor experience felt – busy with so many hard days of work in a row that when we finally picked our heads up to look around, a decade had already passed.

But our story is just getting started. The average age of the top 10 companies in our industry is 117 years old. The youngest company on that list is 26 years old. We’re still the new kid on the block; we’ve grown up, but we still have our whole life in front of us.

Here’s my advice to anyone struggling through the first decade or two (TL;DR: Keep going!):

Read the whole post here:

The Decades Are Short But The Centuries Are Long - Neil Thanedar — neilthanedar.com

The first decade is the hardest. Here's my advice to anyone struggling through the first decade or two (TL;DR: Keep going!):

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