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AI Summary
- Blair Livingston built Street Context, a vertical SaaS in capital markets, through 300 coffees over 12 years and relentless early hustle to open doors
- Executed a painful 40% layoff to save the company and optimized for control (board and voting rights) to run the business strategically despite capital pressures
- Delusional optimism is a founder superpower; delayed growth taught the importance of strategy-driven rather than capital-driven decisions