“To have to introduce a new product at the worst economic time in the last 50 years probably wasn't the greatest thing to have happened.” YearsLastsHappenedEconomicWorstProductsIntroducingNew Products Author:Bill Mechanic
“Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money.” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensAbleGrowthHappenedTeamTalentProductsSkillsSmartBottomInvestingSizeFinanceInvestorsLots Of MoneyCeoLikelihood Author:Marc Andreessen
“I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.” WayDifferentGamesHappenedProductsEras Author:Chris Pronger
“Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.” IdeasSeemsImaginationHappenedProductsPhotographyFinalsMy Imagination Author:Laurel Nakadate
“At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.” WayEnergySecretRiskHappenedProductsDrugTradeMedicalEnginesAdoptionSteamVaccinesPatentsRisk-takingSteam EnginesMedical Advances Author:Bill Gates