Itay Dreyfus

"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7Dm

One mistake I often used to make at Justin.tv was offering a potpourri of business models (virtual goods, product placement, chat ads, contests, etc..). I was embarrassed to say Justin.tv would monetize with advertising when clearly that was the only answer. Own the simple business model.

In the last five years they have released more than 100 products.

Really unpopular opinion for designers: it's easier, more joyful and beneficial to do free work for someone you like, than design and release your perfect portfolio with case studies. The only rule for free work is that you should be the one to offer it, and not asked to do it.

To clarify, my definition of design goes beyond aesthetic qualities and into areas of maintenance, cost, profitability, speed, and purpose.

Even subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.

But he and Ross still come to work, daily, in search of transcendence.