don’t be discouraged
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don’t be discouraged
In 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to sell Google for $750,000.
They were rejected.
Today, their combined stake in the company is worth $247 billion.
Lesson #1: Great Products Expand Markets Taylor Swift moved to Nashville at 13 and went door-to-door to record labels. They all turned her down. Labels saw country music on the decline with young listeners, and didn't see a market for a teen country artist.
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The ultimate competitive advantage is actually giving a shit about the problem you're working on. When Airbnb had just a few dozen employees, Rocket Internet raised $90 million and hired hundreds of people to clone and crush them.
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millions of dollars of funding can't compete with a company having a soul
Confession — I get inferiority complex from all these "How X builds product" posts by @lennysan. Everybody appear to have their shit together, all organized and confident. My experience has been very different. If you want to do something new and hard, it's a constant doubt, chaos and struggle. Everything breaks and changes all the time. Don't get... See more
Kaspars Dancisx.comdon’t get doscouraged by thought leaders that tend to hide the complexity and nuance and constant doubt that comes from building
I think a lot about the fluctuations of belief—the inevitable up and downs of maintaining engagement with something over long periods of time. Most people seem to think that love is unchanging versus merely enduring, that if you’re really passionate about something you wake up excited to do it every day. I don’t believe that’s true. In fact, it... See more
Ava • belief over time
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In 1964, on a folk tour around England, Bob Dylan considered quitting.
He said,
“I play these concerts, and I ask myself: ‘Would you come see me tonight?’ and I have to truthfully say: ‘No, I wouldn’t come...'"
Burnt out and ready to quit playing music, Dylan... See more