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Bruce Dunlevie remained Adam’s champion, expressing his belief in Adam’s expansive vision and comparing him to a new-age Jeff Bezos.

Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

“How did you make all that money? What are the actual steps to get to billions of dollars?” Dick felt strongly that success in business is mainly about compensating your people—namely, designing a profit-sharing formula that marries their personal interests with those of the company.

Brad Jacobs • How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who were being pushed by their venture investors to find an “adult” to serve as CEO of a young search-engine company, Google.

David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

Charles Schwab, the financial-services company, began as “Investment Indicator,” a newsletter first published in 1963.

Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

Barstool Sports started in 2003 by Dave Portnoy. The idea was to create a media publication that catered to people interested in gambling. Barstool found an audience, albeit, niche. It's initial success boiled down to one reason: Dave Portnoy. People loved Dave and Barstool's fans became known as "Stoolies".

Ari Lewis • How Dave Portnoy Single Handedly Changed the Media Business Forever — Ari Lewis

Many of our best product ideas and special buying opportunities came from our vendors.

Patty Civalleri • Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

Product, the coffee mainly. 2. Partners, the suppliers and farmers. 3. Customers, who generate revenue. 4. Stores, and the employees who work in them. 5. Neighborhood, and the communities the company facilitates. 6. Shareholders, the co-owners of the company (Starbucks Coffee Company Web site).

R. Paul Herman • The HIP Investor

The big idea is that you can buy an existing small business, right now, and run it as a CEO. Each year, we teach hundreds of MBA students about this kind of entrepreneurship, and dozens of them follow this path immediately

Royce Yudkoff • HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business

Voici un résumé des meilleures idées, conseils et astuces tirés du livre Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life de Howard Schultz.

1. Leadership et Vision

Responsabilité personnelle : Schultz insiste sur le fait qu'un leader doit se tenir à un niveau d'exigence extrême, faire preuve de discipline et ne pas déléguer entièrement la vision à d'autres