I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'
I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in.
The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.
Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.
The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds
You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.
There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder,” Rabois says: “Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at one can build a pretty foundational company. Most people who are very successful are good at two. But Jack is the only person in the Valley I've met who's all three. He's a first-rate strategist, a first-rate designer, and a first-rate technologist.
Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.
How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!
I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.
Mr. Assad is not going to be able to feel like there is a moderate opposition that actually threatens him. Currently, the Assad government looks out at the landscape, sees the rise of ISIS, sees that much of the rebel force has become largely Islamist, and then turns to the West and says, well, you know, they look toward the West and say, well, look, what you have is a terrorist group that's fighting against us. So in this context, I think, to talk about moderate opposition being created to put pressure on Damascus is rather illusionary.