“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.” PeopleThinkingWantJobsGivenCompanyComfortProveBuiltTasksMajorityStructureMinorities Author:Mark Pincus
“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantI CanTechnologyKnow HowMediaBuiltAdversityMeaningfulSoftwareDisruptionUnderdog Author:Aaron Levie
“I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.” WantI CanIdeasHardBuiltWho You AreAnalysisObsessed Author:Ben Silbermann
“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYearsSaidHardShowsSidesFocusGroupsDesignProductsBuiltEconomicsHorseCustomersInventionFasterWant UEntropyFocus GroupsShannon Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World