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A mantra is the blueprint for a successful startup: Building something 10x better, validating 10x ideas, and hiring a 10x team — is extraordinarily simple. Substack's opinionated view on journalism can be encapsulated in a single mantra: Advertising is ruining journalism. A mantra will help you decide who to hire, how to grow, and how to build your product. Every great company, by necessity, is born through a controversial view of the world. The reasoning is simple: If you want to build something significantly better, you must have a viewpoint that’s significantly unique. It needs to take a side side by taking a side of the opinionated side.