Sublime

As I came to realize, our business was really “changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.”

“small pieces loosely joined.”)

We were all enthusiasts. Some of us were also entrepreneurs.

But it is only when a business becomes profitably self-sustaining, rather than subsidized by investors, that we can be sure that it is here to stay.

You must always be alert, though, for an inflection point where the old gives way to something profoundly new.

Truly disruptive new services don’t just digitize the familiar. They do away with it.

It’s what capital markets are for: to provide the money that lets entrepreneurs large and small take risks.

In this view, business exists to serve human needs. Corporations