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You are going to get so many moments when people ask too much of you. They ask too much, and you know that you could give them what they want, but to dā€¦
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In some ways, there's nothing new about this. For years, we've been reducing the length of everything we consume. The average pop song is a lot shorterā€¦
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When you're running a startup, the easiest thing to do is get caught up in being "productive" without actually producing anything. It happens to foundeā€¦
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I want to go back for a second. To the dot-com era, when new and unlimited entities harnessed powers that were barely ready to leave a lab and built biā€¦
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ā€œVulnerability equals shame.ā€ Thatā€™s what weā€™ve been taught. Thatā€™s the way weā€™ve learned to live and work and interact with each other. We have develoā€¦
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You canā€™t please 100% of the people 100% of the time. When you put yourself out there, youā€™re doing it with the understanding that you will be opened uā€¦
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Stop worrying about a startup bubble. Excess is not a good thing. Excess is the leading cause of death in awesome startups with no clear business modelā€¦
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One of the oldest jokes in every romantic comedy and every sitcom is that the folks who decide that they're happy on their own and that they are enoughā€¦
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I think some people are still waiting for the world to be handed to them. They want to be discovered, want to be an overnight success, want some companā€¦
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I think we have it thoroughly mixed up. We have an emphasis on being bigger, and we hold it up as the universal goal that everyone should aim for. Whetā€¦
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I understand why people ask this question. We're in a weird place right now - people have reached a point where they are so distrustful of traditional ā€¦
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I believe that the only thing you can count on, the only true measure of your worth, is your word. When you give your word, when you lay it out, there ā€¦
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