Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: 1985
Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, i….
All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we di….
There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I t….
When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug..
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong..
If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time..
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six o….
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work.
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy..
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at..
Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople..
Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology..
I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three ….
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption..
The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product..
Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be..
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it..
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's..
Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds..
We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it..