đź’ˇ on startup mentality
day 2 asks one question, over & over, in silence:
did this thing actually make someone’s life easier to live?
if the answer keeps being “yes,” you don’t need to scream.
if the answer keeps being “no,” you can ship a hundred more features & it won’t matter.
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
Sam Altman • Startup Advice
Velocity
The first thing to say is this: I have not built Flexport for speed. I’ve built it for velocity . That’s an important distinction. In physics, velocity has a vector. Speed only makes sense if you’re pointed in the right direction. To generate velocity, you need to make sure that you have people who are super-aligned both in the short and... See more
The first thing to say is this: I have not built Flexport for speed. I’ve built it for velocity . That’s an important distinction. In physics, velocity has a vector. Speed only makes sense if you’re pointed in the right direction. To generate velocity, you need to make sure that you have people who are super-aligned both in the short and... See more
“The Hardest Coordination Problem on Earth”
Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
What “different future” are we building?
Startups don’t outthink their competitors; they outexecute them. The best startups have founders who stay in sync, but work independently. And there’s a single magic ingredient that makes this work: trust.