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226: Paul Millerd — Walking The Pathless Path

The Bootstrapped Founder

CHAPTER

The Power of Permission

A couple of people have come up to me and explained to me that my just my kind of writing and public of the books that I wrote just inspired them to write. You can look back at my old issues and see like my uncertainty, my discomfort, my small following, my meager financial earnings. It's all there. The weird thing about having some extrinsic success is people start putting you on a pedestal. They think I know something or like I'm have some special abilities. But no, I just stupidly did something I enjoyed for years didn't expect anything from it. And now I'm having some serendipity and luck.

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