Welcome to a bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

On this bonus episode, we're going to revisit a past weekend long read suggestion from last month and talk to the

author of that long read to go further in depth.

Do you remember I recommended Land of the Super Founders, a medium piece by Ali Thomas

Seb who spent 300 hours gathering data on unicorn startups to answer the simple

question, what did billion-dollar startups look like

when they were just getting started? What common traits did they share? If you read

the piece, there's a link in the show notes, it was chockful of data, and so Ali was kind enough

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