Jakob Greenfeld

You need a point of view. Something you stand for. Something you believe that others don’t. Something you see that others are blind to. That’s the writing that spreads and makes a difference.

Most of the social internet has become about building an audience and connecting people to brands and influencers. It’s better understood as a performance by the top 1%, not as a way to exchange knowledge or connect people to one another.

The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.

Self-doubt kills more early stage companies than competition or lack of funding ever will. We talk about companies needing financial capital, but rarely about the importance of emotional capital.

For most people, adjusting their self-image accounts for the difference between giving up and reaching their potential. Want to make the world a better... See more

Who really has it better? Us bankers running around collecting more and more money, stressed by emails piling up, sitting in overly lit corporate spaces, casting judgement on people spending their afternoons laughing outdoors with friends? As the kids say, feels like cope.

Being a founder requires constant calibration between arrogance and humility, optimism and pessimism. You need the arrogance to believe that you have something important to say, but the humility to know most people won’t care. You need the optimism to convince yourself and others (employees, investors, customers) to believe in you. But you need... See more