Business Building

1) All businesses are loosely functioning disasters.

2) Operating a small business feels like a daily knife fight where you get out of bed, try not to get stabbed, get back in bed, and do it all over again.

3) Small businesses don't stay small on purpose.

4) Most companies don't make much money.

5) What money they make is almost always reinvested back... See more

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

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