early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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early days
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
Linear’s first launch only had 18 upvotes.
In Launch #2 they refined their tagline.
never judge a technology by its early days
First Versions
firstversions.com
a great little repository cataloguing the first versions of the things we love and use every day.
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
Sony was founded on this day in 1946.
Its first product was an electric rice cooker.
Here’s more on the journey… 🧵
