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- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, it's better to be undervalued a little than overvalued a lot, just because it's still easy to believe our best days are ahead of us.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Control of the browser that people use to access the Web turned out to be far less meaningful than the search engine we use as the starting point for finding Web information. I switch between Safari, Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome browsers all day. I never stray from Google search.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I am sympathetic to newspapers, I am not entirely convinced by the newspapers' claim that Google News violates fair use standards in posting snippets from news articles on its site.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that we can hardly admit mistakes. This is especially true of first-time CEOs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting as if someone wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with Redfin.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is how disconnected and purposeless I felt before Redfin or my earlier startup, Plumtree. All I ever wanted was to get into a situation where I could win. Everybody has that dream.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem for new businesses isn't corporate taxes. Anyone who has actually started a new business knows you don't make enough money for years to pay any meaningful tax on it.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most CEOs walk around the office like we own the place, without realizing that the place itself isn't worth owning: a business's value comes from the people who walk out the door every night, who have to decide each morning whether to walk back in. One of the simplest things you can do as a leader is honor their choice and appreciate their work.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important for a CEO to feel lucky.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I have come back to the way our dad is, realizing that it's sometimes our job to see the world as it could be, as we want it to be.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.
- iPhone
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's most revolutionary about Uber is not the tool that consumers use but the fact that the only equipment needed by its drivers is their iPhone.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who wait.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2006, I appeared before a House subcommittee considering real estate reform. It was like visiting the capital for the 'Hunger Games' as an outsider in a glamorous and byzantine fairy tale: I couldn't believe how beautiful all the congressional aides were, and I never understood the system of bells and alarms warning legislators to vote.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public education, and immigration policy are to Silicon Valley's long-term success.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the Grateful Dead, were an odd combination of liberals and libertarians.
- Hacker
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas any political party, and nearly all voters, prize consistency as a sign of authentic, values-driven thinking, it is deeply alien to the hacker, who holds that changing your mind is simply intelligence in action.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost nothing can make you more miserable than when your company is struggling, and only then do you realize that this is exactly when it's almost impossible for a CEO to quit.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
VCs are good at asking questions.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your service. What separates a potential colossus from other businesses is the capacity to keep growing at that rate in years four, five, and beyond.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what's going to annoy your clients.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an identical twin, and I felt that with my twin brother, we sort of formed this unassailable force, and it gave me the confidence to be different. Even if I was a goofball, my twin brother was a goofball with me, so I didn't have to worry about fitting in as much. I was able to march to my own drummer.
- Corporate World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is that people just can't be genuine human beings in a corporate environment. So if you can really be your own self, even if it's a little bit different, I think people are really drawn to that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about being an investment banker. I just didn't know what I wanted to do with myself. I think the thing that best suits me about being a C.E.O. is that you get to exercise many different talents and wear many different hats.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And I finally connected with these guys who started a software company, and almost serendipitously fell into that. I felt like they were goofy guys and that I was a goofy guy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tech industry's love for scrappy, accessible founders adds to the pressure. You're expected to lead by example, to roll up your sleeves, to know everything going on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize someone has to pay.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists, law firms, and investors exercise their rights to it alongside your own.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Funny money has always been the reason housing prices have risen too fast. First, it was liar loans and negative-amortizing mortgages, where the total amount you owed increased rather than decreased every month. We all know how that ended, with the global financial crisis of 2008.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the tech CEOs I know used to think that moving to the Midwest or the South was beneath us, a good tactic for the Boeings of the world who don't need the kind of rare skills we depend on, who have to grub for profits when we reach for growth. But if Amazon can't afford to keep growing in Seattle, who can?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020