If you study any gold rush, the pattern is boringly consistent. Prospectors get the headlines; shovel sellers build the empires. Levi Strauss didn’t need to find a vein, he stitched the uniform of the era. Wells Fargo didn’t pan; it moved value safely, predictably, at scale. The lesson is simple and deeply inconvenient for hype cycles: the long game is …
Shovel Sellers in the Boardroom: How Infrastructure Thinkers Win the Long Game
Infrastructure isn’t overhead, it’s operating leverage. The leaders who fund the spine win after the hype fades.
