CEOs still need to do lots of cold outbound ... until at least $100M ARR - Auren Hoffman

Even five years ago, very few companies were equipped to leverage external data. Most companies still did not analyze their own data!

But as companies get better and better at finding insights in their internal data, they will look externally for data more and more.

People that drop out of college are way worse off than people that never go in the first place (outside of outliers like Zuck, Gates, etc.) - all the debt, none of the benefit

its a huge policy failure that policymakers treat everyone’s higher ed completion probability as 100%. In reality the completion rate is roughly 50%.

the best acquisitions are integrated into the mothership very slowly and methodically. the hard part is figuring out what to integrate (and in what order). there is no playbook -- every company is different