early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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early days
Linear’s first launch only had 18 upvotes.
In Launch #2 they refined their tagline.
Sony was founded on this day in 1946.
Its first product was an electric rice cooker.
Here’s more on the journey… 🧵
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 worth $80-90… Show more
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:
Billy Oppenheimertwitter.com
Something that has been on my mind lately: things take time. https://t.co/uc2Szlyt4b
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
How to Do Great Work
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
“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.
To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”
- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1