Occupation: Businessman Birth: June 13, 1966
There are no silver bullets..
Your employees know each other better than they know you..
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - se….
You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup..
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company..
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very ins….
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?.
The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I lef….
Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds….
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind..
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job..
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions ….
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the com….
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups..
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong..
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus..
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'.
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything..
The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs do….
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more..
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating.