Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: October 11, 1967
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that te….
For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take thei….
I do think Tim Cook is doing a very good job, I think he has almost impossibly big shoes to fill with Steve Jobs' departure. And so, that's the conte….
You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable..
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition..
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past..
Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced..
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a s….
Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existi….
Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried..
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to ch….
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself..
Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot..
When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly..
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present..
The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..
I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures..
A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it..
Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your compa….
It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technol….
If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'.