“People in startup land often talk about the magic of how few people built the original Google or the original Facebook, but today’s Google employs 20,000 people and today’s Facebook employs over 1,500 people. So, if you want to do something that matters, then you are going to have to learn the black art of scaling a human organization.”
“And then, at some point, you realize you’re spending your best energy on optimization, not on creation.”
Put simply, business model abstraction is where someone other than the user bears the financial cost of a product or service: ie the product revenue is abstracted from the users of the product.
Layton Duncan with some insight on the inherent flaw in free services like Facebook and Twitter.
This is You is a beautiful recruitment piece from Herman Miller with some excellent illustration and motion design.
A fantastic SlideShare presentation from Reed Hastings on the Netflix work culture, rich with innovative management ideas.
“College works on the factory model, and is in many ways not suited to training entrepreneurs. You put in a student and out comes a scholar.”
“Be careful of the “everyones” who say pageviews are imperfect but the best we can do. They’re the ones who are happy with the web as a market for bullshit.”
“Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.”
Just boarded a 10+ hour flight to Europe.
The bad news: there are three five-year-old boys sitting in the row behind me.
The good news: this bar...
