Business Building

You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating: - someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold - someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster

.@dharmesh on why every founder is fighting the 2nd law of thermodynamics

Here are (some) steps founders can take to get reporters to write about their companies (a thread). (Caveat: this thread is not exhaustive and really applies only to me)

On the long game of developing CUDA: “I like hard things because it takes a long time to do. If it takes a long time to do, it takes a really resilient person to do it.”

Figma acquisition shows how hard it is to turn money into software. You'd think for $20B you could build something as good as Figma yourself, but you can't. Software is art.

Best explanation I've seen of what makes a "brand" By Scott Thomas, via @jessicahische https://t.co/noYygFHMdZ

Steve Jobs gave one of his best interviews about building products back in 1995. Anyone who wants to craft amazing products should watch it. Here are 9 quotes from Jobs that really resonated with me:

My favorite part of this practice is the last question is “What are we doing wrong?”, followed by a prod similar to “No, really. Something is broken. What is the most broken thing you’ve seen?” Bugs get filed in substantially real time where appropriate.

The stages of CEO & how to evolve as your company does:

Birkenstock IPO’d today at a ~$8B valuation. Its CEO Oliver Reichert did a massive turnaround in the past decade: sales 5x’d from $125m in 2012 to $1.3B in 2022. The wildest part: he has zero background in footwear or fashion. Prior to taking over the top job in 2013, he… Show more