founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
Success is never a straight line. Walt Disney is decades into his career. An undisputed success. Yet depressed. Life is all peaks and valleys - for everyone.
... See moreI've consulted. I've done client work. I've advised. I've served on boards. I've invested. I've written books. I've spoken on the circuit. I've blogged for years.
I have to say, I've found no greater professional joy than working with a tight group of people to ship and support our own products. And for those products to find people willing to trade
“Instead of finding the product through discovery and iteration the goal is to reverse engineer the vision,” he explains. “If you take an incremental, discovery-led approach, then you might find yourself with product-market fit in a local maximum, building a company that you don’t want to lead.”
Matt Walton • Case study: Sana's vision
work from the vision backwards
The secret of any great project is to keep it moving, keep it from losing momentum.
-William Zeckendorf
Ev Williams (founder of Twitter, Blogger, and Medium) when asked who inspires him:
“When I think about a commonality of companies and leaders I admire, it is those who—whether they have a bunch of resources or not—come from a position of confidence and an abundance mindset.”
When he got to Google, the thing that most struck him was how big they
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“Companies exist at room temperature. It’s a founder’s job to inject heat.”
–Tobi Lütke