James Hong:
Yes, it was like the most superficial thing in the world. The reality is we weren’t saying that looks were important, we were just saying, if you want to get an honest …
Jesse Lipson:
We were very measured because I was committed to just growing within our means, and so we actually had 1,000 customers before I hired our first full-time employee. Our first full-time employee …
Mitch Kapor:
One of the cardinal points that we make is that all businesses have impact, some is positive and some is negative. The fact that our accounting rules view some of those negative …
Matt Shobe:
I’m not going to hold the ocean back with a broom, right? So for me to just cling to this nostalgic view I have of the way things used to be is …
Scott Heiferman:
I’ve never said, “Oh, I want to start a company. What should I start?” Or, “I’m an entrepreneur,” or something like that. It’s more that you stumble on something that you just …
Scott Heiferman:
I think that at the end of the day, in a world where there’s a march to the metaverse, starting from the early days of the web to where we are today, …
Michael Robertson:
We’ve all seen these lists of the most searched for things, right. [inaudible 00:00:07] it’s Britney Spears. Those lists are fun to watch, but I would make the case that people always …
Andrew Conru:
I think relationships and friendships can form in all sorts of types of backgrounds and so spinning out different skins and different niche categories was a thing that we did for the …
Steve Madere:
It could have been Google several years earlier … In terms of like, I could have made a better search engine for the internet that’s faster than everything else that existed at …
Mike Davidson:
I think journalists, for the most part, are severely underpaid, as are teachers. And so we’re setting up this system where some of the best people in the world, the best journalists, …