Marshall Brain:
We had a brand. Look at Under Armour, that’s a brand. They started with water absorbing t-shirts and now you can get Under Armour anything you wear on your body plus anything …
Nugget McNett:
One of the things we found was if you work at a Cinnabon in an airport behind security, and you’re responsible for staffing that Cinnabon. And there is an ice storm in …
Jon Oringer:
The light bulb moment was I’m building all these companies. I’m doing an insane amounts of marketing for them because you can build the product, but then you got to get people …
Jane Metcalfe:
We weren’t selling subscriptions or advertising. We were selling the idea of the internet. It was like, “The internet is coming and you want to be a part of this. And this …
Erik Selberg:
Really, the first web search engines would download the web and then find them. That was it. There was no SPAM. There was very little unsaved content. You know, for example, “Oh, …
Rand Fishkin:
I have no idea how to build a sales team nor how a sales-driven organization can possibly be predictable. To my mind, that’s completely random, right? Some salesperson is performing great, they …
Yvonne Marie Andres:
We developed a program called Doors to Diplomacy, which the US state department funded for 10 years. It was middle school and high school students. The idea was to look at …
Dries Buytaert:
Open source at the core, is a license, a software license. It gives you certain rights. Basically, there’s four fundamental rights, I guess. One is everybody can download and install the software. …
Phil Fernandez:
I used to like to use the line that companies that came before would be on a race to a thousand customers and that we were on a race to a hundred …
Jacob Lodwick:
It’s really cool that I get to have this legacy that literally started off as a personal art project for myself and turned into an 8 billion enterprise video infrastructure company with …