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“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.
To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”
- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1
Before they were famous 1. Here's @YouTube's first website when it was a video dating site https://t.co/Z2wnVjSiBznice thread on early days
Something that has been on my mind lately: things take time. https://t.co/uc2Szlyt4bfrom Reddit founder:
At parties, the awkwardness of trying to tell people what we did for a living (“We, uh, build a website. You know, it’s kind of a news-type website.”) gave way to recognition (“Oh yeah, I’ve heard of that site.”), and then to profuse thanks for a great time-waster. Towards the end, actual introductions became unnecessary — peopl
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2009 concerns - can YouTube make money?- As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.
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Because of how much we deify the great entrepreneurs of our time, we end up inevitably comparing our new companyfrom Edward Lando by John Koenig
- As a new founder, it’s tempting and often discouraging to compare your inside to another’s outside. Every other founder and company looks so well put together, whereas you are of course all too aware of your shortcomings and insecurities.
- How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
from How to Do Great Work
Sony was founded on this day in 1946. Its first product was an electric rice cooker. Here’s more on the journey… 🧵
When he was 11, Kobe Bryant played a full 25-game basketball season without scoring a single point. He then took a simple mathematical approach to becoming one of the all-time greats:
