Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: August 21, 1958
At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build..
I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million..
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of….
All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody..
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination..
You really need to believe that you are on to something important..
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have.
You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exception….
The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges..
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed..
I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesse….
In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pi….
I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it….
Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important..
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and dif….
Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you really work hard..
If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, an….
You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have ….
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectiv….
If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's i….