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> We will not celebrate. Every day will be awesome, or we stop what we’re doing and make it awesome. Cake is for gazelles, and we are lions.

What does this even mean?



Gazelles is a term that describes a lean small business that can change direction and for instance pivot very easily.

A "lion" company is one that is "top of the food chain" and imposes its will upon other companies (think Facebook or Google)


That Zoos can feed their Gazelles left over cake?


So we live in a zoo and eat gazelles. Ok, that makes sense now.


Many offices have parties for releases, or quarterly, or whatever.

Merlinn Mann said it best: If donuts in the break room is the highlight of your day, you need to change what you're doing, or "have more interesting problems."


I highly doubt you won't be celebrating when you make your first million.

edit: And I think you should be! You should be happy, this should be an achievement to you, not just another day at the office. But a day at the office you get to talk about as a milestone.


It's basically just another day in the office. The day before, you had 990,000 (or something). The day after you will have 1,010,000. Nothing has changed, basically.


We have awesome cake every day. Now what?


You will get obese and get tooth decay. Also, I am not jealous of your cake.




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