Time to Upgrade Who You Are

Your next breakthrough starts with who you become

Open a new tab, Google “Mark Zuckerberg 2004.” This is the picture you’ll see, a college kid hunched over a bulky monitor:

Source: The Harvard Crimson

Next, change that search to “Mark Zuckerberg 2014.” Notice how the cluttered desk is gone, replaced by a stage, lights, and an audience:

Source: Tampa Bay Times

Finally, type “Mark Zuckerberg 2024” and hit enter. The same face appears (but somehow... cooler?):

Source: Beat 99.9 FM

Same dude. Three completely different identities.

I attended a keynote where Ron Gabrisko was talking about how he helped scale Databricks from $1M to $3B in ARR.

That's a 3,000x growth. Let that sink in. If I took a football field and made it 3,000x bigger, it would stretch from Phoenix to Las Vegas. That's massive.

Most people never come close to this amount of growth because each quantum leap in Zuck's journey (or Ron's) started with a tiny signal that the current version of themselves were hitting its ceiling.

The pattern is simple: