Jason Bergman
@jasonmbergman
Jason Bergman
Stay small as long as you can. A startup is a search for a scalable and repeatable business model. Until you find that, stay as small as you can.
Innovators Bias: When you want to build a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail
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Naval - if you can’t decide, the answer is no. You’ll never be absolutely certain but you should be very certain. If you’re ever split on a decision, choose the hardest short term pain. Most gains come from suffering in the short term to get paid in the long term. Accessibility to learning is abundant but the desire to learn is scarce.
ServiceNow internally advocated employees being drivers, not passengers. Passengers end up in the same place as drivers but they are dead weight.
Amp It Up! by Frank Slootman
Somebody would ask me if he could get back to me about something next week, and I would reply ‘how about tomorrow morning? Might be completely unreasonable, did not matter. The point was to change people’s sense of urgency.
Amp It Up! by Frank Slootman
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
Orangutan theory - if you go into a room and tell an orangutan what you’re thinking one person walks out smarter.