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Building high growth companies is hard — without a sense of purpose, you will inevitably burn out. That is why behind every investment we’ve made is a founder who has found his/her true purpose. 

When you name an idea of your own creation, you release that idea into the world with its own force of gravity. A name anchors an idea in its own place in a listener’s mind, and pulls other, related ideas and stories towards it. When this happens, the idea can grow and evolve organically in the minds of new readers, taking on a life of its own, sha... See more

Curation, when thought of in the context of sharing bite-sized, isolated bits in feed-like architectures, is predominantly about entertainment, not utility. It’s not wrong to say there is a market for this kind of curation. What people miss, though, is that this market is already captured by Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.

Tony Fadell was hired to create the iPod in late January 2001. Steve Jobs greenlit the project in March 2001. They hired a contract manufacturer in April 2001, announced the product in October 2001, and shipped the first production iPod to customers in November 2001, around 290 days after getting started.

All these books, there is the decision you can make to compromise on the quality of your product or take a shortcut or do something you would never dare do it. I just read the biography of the guy that started In-N-Out. Compared to his contemporaries, the McDonald's and Carl's Junior and all this explosion of fast food that was happening at that ti... See more