founder's mentality

.@dharmesh on why every founder is fighting the 2nd law of thermodynamics

What YC taught me about how startups fail https://t.co/Rh3hvOPbOr

I can’t imagine anything less interesting in business than maximizing shareholder value. Yet this is what public companies are pressured — if not legally required — to do. A lot of non-public companies follow the same path towards performance and results.

To take it further, maximization as a concept just isn’t interesting to me. I don’t care about... See more

“The trick is,” film executive Tom Rothman says, “from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.”