"Records are set by the people who said fuck your limits and found their own."
"Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again."
"Vimeo has always focused on people who [make] video,” CEO Dae Mellencamp told Adweek. “We’re not redistributing mass media content. We’re not trying to be a network or TV. We think we provide people who want to share [user-generated videos] one of the absolute best experiences in which to do that."
"So was Mr. Jobs smart? Not conventionally. Instead, he was a genius. That may seem like a silly word game, but in fact his success dramatizes an interesting distinction between intelligence and genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. They were sparked by intuition, not analytic rigor. Trained in Zen Buddhism, Mr. Jobs came to value experiential wisdom over empirical analysis. He didn’t study data or crunch numbers but like a pathfinder, he could sniff the winds and sense what lay ahead."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk…In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
— Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston | TechCrunch
Competition is a force of nature much like a snowstorm or an earthquake. It can put you out of business. But you don’t spend your life obsessing over a snowstorm or an earthquake.
