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.
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
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
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
never judge a technology by its early days
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: