founder's mentality
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founder's mentality
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
I just talked to a founder whose startup is growing "only" 25% a year and thus felt he needed to get bought. I explained that if he did, he'd need to find somewhere to invest the proceeds, and he'd be unlikely to find any investments that grew at 25% a year.
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- Momentum is a moat . As an optimistic entrepreneur, chief product officer focused on innovation, and especially as a leader of M&A for years, this is a lesson I have learned the hard way more times than I care to admit. When a product has escape velocity, it doesn’t even need to be the best product on the market to continue winning. This pains me
Scott Belsky • Reprogramming Humanity’s Primal Instincts & What We Learn From A Future “History of Tech” Class
... See more“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To
“The trick is,” film executive Tom Rothman says, “from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.”