early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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early days
When he was 11, Kobe Bryant played a full 25-game basketball season without scoring a single point.
He then took a simple mathematical approach to becoming one of the all-time greats: https://t.co/TTV7NI61md
Billy Oppenheimertwitter.comBecause of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company
John Koenig • Edward Lando
Something that has been on my mind lately: things take time. https://t.co/uc2Szlyt4b
Before they were famous
1. Here's @YouTube's first website when it was a video dating site https://t.co/Z2wnVjSiBz
nice thread on early days
Remembering this logged out profile redesign like it was just yesterday.
Lots of work to try to get the exact right language on top of the page to describe what Twitter is and why it is useful to sign up.
The key measure was engaged users who signed up.
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Josh Elmanx.comFirst Versions
firstversions.com
a great little repository cataloguing the first versions of the things we love and use every day.
Sony was founded on this day in 1946.
Its first product was an electric rice cooker.
Here’s more on the journey… 🧵
I did not make a single $ from 20VC for three years.
4 shows per week for 3 years and not $1.
For the first 150 episodes, I did not get more than 1,000 plays per episode.
This is a game of who can survive the longest.
Do not quit.
Harry Stebbingsx.com