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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology ... and you can build software then, around the user.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.
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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
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The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
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Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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