# business model
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52:49Lifestyle business vs. scalable businessJeremy Cline: Yeah, and this is something that I've reflected on the difference between lifestyle business and scalable, you're not working in the business, you're working on the business kind of thing. And I wonder whetEP 259 · 18 Dec 2025·interview· 52:49–61:2634:40Why they chose a business model over charityLeanne Elliott: You said that we could take this route. We could set up as a charity or a nonprofit and take all the government funding, charge people to come in. Ross deserves better than that. What's the distinction foEP 253 · 27 Nov 2025·interview· 34:40–41:5213:23What Isn't Working – Shareholder SupremacyAl Elliott: Your book is called This Isn't Working. What isn't working? Meghan French Dunbar: I mean, I'll start with the meta, the big thing that isn't working, which is shareholder supremacy and the profit-at-all-costsEP 229 · 4 Sept 2025·interview· 13:23–15:305:39Basecamp's Profit-Sharing ModelAl Elliott: As you know, I occasionally go on X or Twitter or Twix, as I call it, Um, and, uh, there's one of the guys I follow on there called Jason Fried. Um, he's the guy who runs Basecamp, formerly 37signals. Um, andEP 170 · 11 Feb 2025·news roundup· 5:39–11:0320:24How the model actually worksAl Elliott: So we now know the what, we know the why. Cool idea. But at this stage, I still didn't quite get it because it seemed like as a founder, I'm, if I use this Geoff system, seemed like as a founder, I'm giving aEP 106 · 13 Jun 2024·interview· 20:24–27:57
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