early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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early days
Instagram - "the social aspect could be good...although I have no friends :("
2009 concerns - can YouTube make money?
Q: How do the best startup founders make it through the dark times?
As Sam Altman puts it in the clip below:
“No one is as honest about how bad the early days are as they should be because it’s so embarrassing in retrospect.”
Even though Open AI is rumored to be... See more
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
2009 (before they were famous) at South by Southwest in Austin, Mumford played "The Cave" live at Red House Pizzeria.
Crowd of like 12 people, but it was the beginning of a banger!
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.comFirst Versions
firstversions.com
a great little repository cataloguing the first versions of the things we love and use every day.
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.com
Sony was founded on this day in 1946.
Its first product was an electric rice cooker.
Here’s more on the journey… 🧵