The Committed Innovator: An interview with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo

Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.

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. We need a leader who can take a big ambiguous problem — at the industry level — and turn it into a successful product and business, in short order

Elan: Something that you’ve written about is this idea that there’s two kinds of startups: one that's solving a functional problem, and one that's manifesting a creative vision. What's your take on the distinction between the two?

Sari: People want to go on a journey. They want to understand what your vision is, not just what problem you’re solving... See more