A 40-person company now brings in about $100 million a year. The typical software company would need around 700 employees to pull that off. The founder has one rule that explains most of it, and it sounds crazy. His team isn't allowed to look at how other companies solve problems. Bring him a slide about how Stripe or Cursor does something and he doesn't want to see it. Jake Cooper, who runs Railway, says looking at someone else's solution is basically cheating on your homework. And he means…