Business Building
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Business Building
I think we have so many examples of assholes starting businesses, and if they’re the majority of examples, we’re only going to have shitty businesses. I want to see people with very specific perspectives and opinions on how to manifest things into the world. More people should take business personally.
Or take HEY. HEY has tens of thousands of paying customers. For us that's a win. For Google/Gmail it would be a huge failure. They need a whole lot more to make something worth it. We need a whole lot less to make it a spectacular success. HEY has tens of thousands of users. Gmail has a billion. So are we "losing" to Gmail? Or are HEY and Gmail... See more
You only compete with one thing
Email from Steve Jobs to Apple employees on the day it surpassed Microsoft to become largest tech firm
a fascinating example of humility and leadership
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
Scott Belskyamazon.com
Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.
Govindappa Venkataswamy
In more physical industries, there are generally diminishing marginal returns: the next acre you plant and next oil well you drill is probably not as productive as the last one—because if it were, you would have done it first! But the next user of a software platform is often more valuable than the previous one, because they increase the size of the network.