Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: August 5, 1967
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes..
Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future..
The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad luck as well as good luck, ….
Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easi….
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down..
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not..
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do..
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful..
Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible..
When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake..
We understand that most of the middle class doesn't know what to do, doesn't feel like they have economic progress, and [Hillary Clinton] goes, "OK, ….
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do..
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projec….
I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies.".
Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow mo….
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform..
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees..
One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public offic….
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late..
When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite..
The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high stan….