founder's mentality
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Email from Steve Jobs to Apple employees on the day it surpassed Microsoft to become largest tech firm
a fascinating example of humility and leadership
Brave thing I heard in a board meeting this week: “I don’t know if we have a good answer to that, yet.”
Admitting you *don’t know* the answer is hugely productive. We’re trying to find, together, the important things we don’t know the answers to
Striking how rarely it is said
sarah guo // convictiontwitter.comI don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they... See more
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
the strategy was to do the work
The trouble with exponential growth is that the curve feels flat in the beginning. It isn't; it's still a wonderful exponential curve. But we can't grasp that intuitively, so we underrate exponential growth in its early stages.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
“If you’re MSCHF, you don’t have to be so precious. There’s always more ideas, always the next project., and if you just have that commitment not to censor yourself and put things out there, it’s a more generative way of thinking.”
-Lauren Boyle, Made by MSCHF
Passion & Pain
joincolossus.comKrispy Kreme, Crocs, and Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
Digital Nativedigitalnative.substack.com