early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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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!
Instagram - "the social aspect could be good...although I have no friends :("
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.
13 years ago. Wow.
never judge a technology by its early days
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
“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
