what is value creation?
“Companies exist at room temperature. It’s a founder’s job to inject heat.”
–Tobi Lütke
be the catalyst.
Take the work seriously, but not yourself.
Sari Azout • A Moodboard for People Who Hate Self-Promotion
don’t care to be liked. care about the quality of the work and what it takes to get to that standard.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
Figma’s founding vision = to “eliminate the gap between imagination and reality.”
One of the biggest mistakes we make in Silicon Valley is generalizing reasons why startups fail. Google was the 24th search engine. Facebook was the at least the dozenth social network.
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #48
there is no other competition but yourself.
Love this from Jesse Beyroutey : We’ve found that the primary source for a company’s dominance is whether it designs its product and business model to be perfectly aligned with its customers’ interests. A great test of alignment is whether the company benefits or suffers from increased transparency.
sariazout.substack.com • Check Your Pulse #55
“If something looks irrational – and has been so for a long time – odds are you have a wrong definition of rationality.” – Taleb
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
Repetition doesn't spoil the prayer.
Writing | A Marketing Mantra for Founders
leaders open up the bag, with courage.