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In order to be credible, you must be authentic and true.
om.co • Brunello Cucinelli
To be credible, you must be consistent in the way you behave. Someone can say to you, “Listen, two years ago, you said something different.” In a split second, they know. That’s where lies that wonderful future for mankind.
“A little learning is a dangerous thing”
People who know only a little do not understand how little they know and are therefore prone to error.
This quote is from a poem by Alexander Pope.
On the time YC cofounder @jesslivingston tore me a new one and changed the future org structure of Ramp:
At YC, we attended weekly office hours where every startup shared 1/ their weekly growth %, 2/ their biggest problem, and 3/ what they were doing to solve it.
That week in summer 2015 our... See more
“Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.”
Collab Fund • Respect Each Others' Delusions
VC business model isn't to build a traditional profitable business that beats the competition by providing a superior product/service for a competitive price. It is to dominate the competition by subsidizing the real cost to consumers, until you have taken over the market and can raise the price and lower the quality of the product/service.
Unicorn founders did not go to business school, nor did they work at McKinsey. Instead, they were less career-oriented global citizens who typically worked in a startup before they became founders.
On average, they had 10 years of work experience prior to founding, mostly within product & engineering, and they almost always lived, worked or studied... See more
On average, they had 10 years of work experience prior to founding, mostly within product & engineering, and they almost always lived, worked or studied... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the product."
-Tobi, founder of Shopify
... See moreTelling me your product is “email”, makes me assume it’s similar to other email solutions. I will expect your competitors to be GMail or Outlook and your pricing will be similar. I will expect it to have an inbox and a way to filter spam. On the other hand, if you tell me your product is “chat” I will make completely different assumptions and I
Altman increasingly argued that “AI could lead to resource abundance,” meaning it could eliminate massive numbers of jobs and concentrate resources in the hands of a few, said Matt Krisiloff, a friend and former colleague of Altman’s who spearheaded the universal income project and now heads a fertility start-up that Altman invested in. “He has a... See more