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Do startup milestones feel bigger as the numbers get bigger?

No — the emotional weight doesn't scale. "I remember the first collection like it was yesterday, and making the first $12 of revenue and being like, that was the coolest... it honestly meant more." Today InDebted makes over $1 million a week in revenue.
— Josh Foreman, InDebted (Ep 32)

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No — the emotional weight doesn't scale. "I remember the first collection like it was yesterday, and making the first $12 of revenue and being like, that was the coolest... it honestly meant more." Today InDebted makes over $1 million a week in revenue.

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Josh remembers the first dollar, and the first million dollars collected — there's a video of him and a few teammates popping a bottle of Moët to celebrate $1 million collected. Fast forward, and the company makes over $1 million a week. The early milestones carried more feeling than the ones a thousand times larger, which is his case for loving the engine-room days rather than rushing past them.

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