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About 1% of a company’s value comes from its originating idea.
The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%.
For example:
> Slack’s original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming... See more
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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph
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A disc: $20. A reputation for having every DVD and always being in stock: priceless.
Marc Randolph • That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings
Will Tavlin • Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
Netflix would charge customers a fixed monthly fee to rent up to four movies at a time. (This was soon reduced to three.) Customers could keep the discs as long as they wanted—no more late fees—but could only rent new movies after they mailed back the old ones
Will Tavlin • Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
The CEOs of these other start-ups were no different from Ross, either. They had all read the same Ayn Rand books. These chief executives shared the same quotes on Facebook as he did: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” The leaders of these companies all preached the same verbiage as the Dread Pirate Roberts
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