Business Building
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Business Building
hottest companies in Silicon Valley, famous for one thing: they made an extremely boring product extremely beloved. He speaks about how «technology makes it faster to build, but harder to care.» And how real quality can only be achieved by truly valuing craft, for its own sake. «This is what craft is about — the deliberate attention put into making... See more
tech makes it faster to build but harder to care
The best tech companies drive strategy through product. This is why founders and CEOs tend to be product leaders, and product / design / engineering is more important than ops / marketing / finance. Here’s what this looked like for me as a business leader at Amzn and Facebook:
nametwitter.com
Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.
Govindappa Venkataswamy
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
Thriving in Changing Markets
joincolossus.comOne result of this past tech cycle was a view that companies needed to build hyper complex ponzi schemes of ambition in order to accumulate capital and be valued. This led to a variety of shooting stars that never realized their main goal.
Another view was an insane amount of value ascribed to hyper-narrow features masquerading as companies, leading... See more
Another view was an insane amount of value ascribed to hyper-narrow features masquerading as companies, leading... See more
Michael Dempsey • On Scope Creep & ZIRP Lessons
expand the product, not the mission
1. It doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be fresh.
The toy brick was invented (and patented) by British toymaker, Hilary Fisher Page in the 1950s. But when LEGO released its own riff on the brick, they made some very important changes to ‘freshen up’ the idea for the Danish market. One of those important changes was the little tubes underneath... See more
The toy brick was invented (and patented) by British toymaker, Hilary Fisher Page in the 1950s. But when LEGO released its own riff on the brick, they made some very important changes to ‘freshen up’ the idea for the Danish market. One of those important changes was the little tubes underneath... See more
Five lessons from LEGO - Colossus
Five lessons from Lego