That's something that aligns well with the culture and ethos at Lynda.com, which was also self-funded until it took its mammoth round from Accel and Spectrum Equity last year.
It looks like a rocket with its mammoth fins and big central taillight.
At nearly 900 pages it exudes a can-do confidence about its mammoth task, which is to explain how modern Britain came into being in the middle years of the 19th century.
It stopped just short of the resort, with its mammoth red dome flanked by three white towers.
Back in 2006, when comic book giant Marvel first made the decision to self-finance and self-produce films based on its mammoth library of colorfully-clad do-gooders, it was easy to arch a furrowed, skeptical brow.
The sale comes only days after Verizon Communications announced that it has taken out $61 billion in financing to support its mammoth deal to buy full control of its wireless unit.
It's been a few weeks since the FCC issued its mammoth 15th Annual Mobile Wireless Competition Report.
It was formed in 1999 when the province divided Ontario Hydro, its mammoth power monopoly, into a power plant operator, Ontario Power Generation, and a distribution company, Hydro One.
Its mammoth spending over the years is geared, above all, to get the elusive "La Décima".
The Pantanal lives in the shadow of the Amazon, its mammoth neighbor to the north.
Royal Bank of Scotland successfully completed its mammoth £12 billion ($24 billion) rights issue.
