early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
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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.
13 years ago. Wow.
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from Reddit founder:
At parties, the awkwardness of trying to tell people what we did for a living (“We, uh, build a website. You know, it’s kind of a news-type website.”) gave way to recognition (“Oh yeah, I’ve heard of that site.”), and then to profuse thanks for a great time-waster. Towards the end, actual introductions became unnecessary — peopl
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“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
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Something that has been on my mind lately: things take time. https://t.co/uc2Szlyt4b
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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:
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never judge a technology by its early days
Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new company
John Koenig • Edward Lando
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First Versions
firstversions.com
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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!
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