Your Business Philosophy Is Just What You Can Tolerate Doing

I've noticed something about every founder who preaches about the "right" way to build companies:

They're telling you what they can tolerate given their current situation.

The "product-led growth" advocates often can't stand sales.
The "sales is everything" crowd can't tolerate the organic growth grind.
The "always bootstrap" crowd can't access funding or can't let go of control.
The "always raise money" crowd can't tolerate staying small.
The "anti-enshittification" crowd can't tolerate bad products.
The "engineer craftsman" can't tolerate shipping code that isn't perfect.
The "ship a shitty MVP this weekend" crowd can't tolerate committing to a wrong idea.
The "mission-driven visionary" can't tolerate their idea not existing in the world.

None are wrong. Every business philosophy is just someone's constraints dressed up as universal wisdom.

We're all building around what works for us, we should stop pretending otherwise.