AN OBLIGATION TO INDEPENDENCE

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

If you own an independent company and you're not greenlighting weird stuff, you're wasting one of life's true pleasures. Independence isn't just about freedom - it's an obligation to try things no board would ever approve. Public companies worth billions can't do what you can do. They need to justify every move, run it past committees, and worry about quarterly earnings. You can fund the oddball ideas, the "this will probably never work but..." experiments that occasionally catch fire. Very few people get to provide cover for strange attempts without asking permission. So if you're in that position and playing it safe, you're missing the entire point of being independent.