Compound Startups - by Nandu Anilal - notes & upside

software enters its consolidation era

Compound Startups software enters its consolidation era Nandu Anilal Jun 16, 2023 8 2 1 Share summer is here!! no better time to subscribe to this blog Subscribe This year, I’ve noticed more founders describe their businesses as “compound” companies. Borrowing the definition used by Parker Conrad of Rippling, “ a compound startup is a startup that instead of just doing one very narrow thing, tries to build a whole set of different point solution systems in one coherent product ”. This is far from the typical Silicon Valley guidance to focus in on a very specific problem. But I think that we’re

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