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the kind of venture model of building companies has just come to overd dominate the conversation where every business seems to think they need to build some sort of venture scale business this whole mindset is really actually like a niche subset of the ways to do entrepreneurship

Counter-program the dominant narrative instead of fighting it

Tyler frames calm companies not as anti-VC rage but as 'unwinding' a specific niche subset of entrepreneurship that came to dominate the conversation. He describes calm businesses by what they're NOT and lets the contrast do the work. Position by reframing the default, not by attacking it — 'X is actually a niche, here's the bigger frame' converts better than 'X is bad.'


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Tyler Tringas
Calm Company Fund (fka Earnest Capital)GP · founder-friendly capital for bootstrapped SaaS · shared-earnings model
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Tyler Tringas — Investing in Bootstrapped SaaS· 14:00
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