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Rich Barton is hardly a household name. Perhaps this is because he’s not based here, and makes relatively few investments. However, while there are more visible founders (like Bezos and Zuckerberg) who’ve built bigger businesses, market cap and notoriety aren’t the only measures of a founder. And Barton is a strong contender for the title of best c... See more
kwokchain.com • Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
Our tagline is Founders are artists, not assets. If I had to summarize my core belief, it’s that the best founders, especially in the early days, look more like artists creating a fundamentally new, creative project. They don’t resemble business executives chasing an arbitrage opportunity.
Elan Miller • In the Asylum with Nick Chirls
he worked as Netscape's product manager to pivot the server product line. Microsoft's IIS had all the features they had, was five times faster, and was free. Mike Homer and he worked furiously to acquire and partner. they beat Microsoft and grew the server line to $400M.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz
Flickr became a modest success and was acquired by Yahoo for $35 million in 2005, making Butterfield a Super Founder who, like many other Super Founders, went on to start a multibillion-dollar company next.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
The internet unlocks distribution. Traditionally, gatekeepers dictated who had influence: record labels, newspaper editors, studio executives. Now anyone can build an online community. You can share videos to YouTube, writing to Substack, music to Soundcloud
Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨
Was Chatting With a Well-Known Founder Yesterday About the "Founder...
It was late 1996, and eBay’s online auction business had been solidly profitable since it was launched; the company did not need a cent. But Pierre Omidyar, twenty-nine, the original founder, and his new partner, Jeff Skoll, thirty-one, were the rare entrepreneurs who knew they needed to hire a CEO and other seasoned executives with skills they lac
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Remarkably, it is wholly owned by Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, who are two of the most understated billionaires in tech.