how I’d build a startup
“Artists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others… World-building means creating everything — not only making things inside the world but also the surrounding world itself — the language, style, rules, and architecture.” - Yancey Strickler
Are you building a practice or a cathedral?
- Yancey Strickler
That’s the environment. But the white pill is that substance, can cut through even more. The people genuinely yearn for the next Apple. Care, craft, a love of the arts.
Give it to them. Give it to them forreal, not just the cosplay.
You’ll find there’s no playbook. It can’t be copied. It’s a lot harder. But you won’t feel gross.
Give it to them. Give it to them forreal, not just the cosplay.
You’ll find there’s no playbook. It can’t be copied. It’s a lot harder. But you won’t feel gross.
Reggie James • Tweet
But time and scale and riches and glories later. We now see what I generally call “meta-startups”
Their only goal is playing the game. They have no vision beyond attention and scale. They have no sense of impact or betterment. All romanticism is gone.
Their only goal is playing the game. They have no vision beyond attention and scale. They have no sense of impact or betterment. All romanticism is gone.
Reggie James • Tweet
f you want to be successful and we do then you have to be willing to be misunderstood okay come on this has been a main theme the last month and do things that do not seem sensible to most people for example if you the employees come into the office in the morning thinking how are you going to beat number one number two and number three in the indu
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This is how I would build a startup
It's something we shouldn't even be thinking about at Workflow
the founder is the guardian of the company's Soul
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
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Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
I think this also why the Apple culture of secret works so well. On your most important values there can be no second chances. If I let you do it this once, then you'll do it again
why is this list not the same as the current Nomad portfolio
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
This makes me think about what I'm interested in and what I subscribed to and spend my time listening to do and doing.
And cutting down everything until I can focus on what matters.