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Key Takeaways Stay ahead by building behind the scenes: Don’t wait for demand to spike before investing in your operations. If you’re not investing when it’s calm, you’ll fall behind when it’s not.
Growth isn’t just about big moves. Optimizing day-to-day operations is what separates businesses that scale sustainably from those that burn out by chasing the next big thing.
Expand globally, but act locally. Success in new markets requires understanding the landscape, respecting the community and building something that works on the ground.
Many people see Bitcoin mining as a boom-or-bust industry driven by price charts and market speculation. But from the inside, it looks very different.
Running a mining operation at scale means managing hundreds of thousands of machines across continents, navigating global energy markets and building infrastructure that needs to perform every single day, regardless of whether Bitcoin is up or down.
I’ve helped build one of the largest bitcoin mining companies in the world in terms of hash rate by focusing on infrastructure, efficiency and long-term thinking. And the more I engage with entrepreneurs, the more I realize the same principles that drive our industry can help founders in any space build more resilient, scalable companies.
Stay ahead by building behind the scenes
Success depends on making long-term investments before the rest of the world pays attention. Standing still means you will eventually fall behind. Every few months, new technologies emerge, operations become more streamlined, and competitive dynamics shift that impact everything from supply chains to customer expectations.
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