Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Community Design and
When his friend and mentor Raiders owner Al Davis called Parcells to check in, Parcells relayed his injury issues. Parcell’s: “Al, I am just not sure how we can win without so many of our best players. What should I do?” Davis replied: “Bill, nobody cares, just coach your team.”
Ben Horowitz • Nobody Cares | Andreessen Horowitz
When things go wrong in your company, nobody cares. The press doesn’t care, your investors don’t care, your board doesn’t care, your employees don’t care, even your mama doesn’t care. Nobody cares.
Ben Horowitz • Nobody Cares | Andreessen Horowitz
Community Design and
We do not create or “have” ideas—if anything is doing the creating or having, it is the ideas themselves.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
What do people actually want from their interactive experiences? The first insight from the pandemic era is that most formal presentations should simply be abolished. The sad reality is that hardly anyone is listening, or for that matter should be.
Bloomberg • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Travis Kalanick started Uber as a hack to split a few private cars with his friends. Thefacebook.com was just a student directory written in PHP. Even Elon Musk started SpaceX with the goal of merely increasing NASA’s budget by pulling a PR stunt.
Daniel Gross • How To Decide What To Build
We are in the age of hyper-competition. Being a big spender is a seductive way to make you feel like you belong.
