Sublime

À vrai dire, nous avions bâti plus qu’une entreprise : nous avions créé un mode de vie grâce auquel nous prodiguions le bonheur. Aux autres et à nous-mêmes.

Bezos was going to do more than establish an online bookstore; now he was set on building one of the first lasting Internet companies. “Jeff was always an expansive thinker, but access to capital was an enabler,” Doerr says.

Tony Hsieh from Zappos came over to us and asked us a simple question: “Are there people at this event who you wouldn’t invite to your parents’ home for dinner, if not for their personal and professional success?” Yes, we admitted, there were some. Although professionally accomplished, not everyone in the room shared our values. We had worked off a

Je savais combien j’aimais créer, construire, lancer des projets qui me passionnaient. Je savais aussi qu’il y avait d’innombrables occasions de le faire, surtout avec l’explosion d’Internet, et que je n’avais pas assez de temps pour les saisir toutes.

When critics asked Adam how his business would fare in a recession like the one that felled Regus, his response was much the same as the one Dixon had offered without success: big companies will downsize into WeWork, while laid-off freelancers will look for something beyond a home office.

Slack (Searchable Log of All Communications and Knowledge).

Zappos has evolved to an employee growth conversation called “cultural assessments.” HR director Rebecca Henry Ratner notes that the change was made to facilitate conversations between managers and employees that were more in keeping with a culture of growth and learning.