@HoracioChavez lol, so true! We're all just doing the best we can in the circumstances we're in, given the constraints we're under and the limited knowledge we posses. If you find yourself hacking around something, it may be better to change that thing, as you would do if you'd written it.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
– Steve
At @coinbase we don’t care if crypto is in a winter, or if people are pivoting to some new hot thing, we just keep showing up every day to build.
Progress toward important missions takes decades, and will have lots of ups and downs along the way. Persistence and determination pay off.
There's only 1 type of person I'm scared of competing against.
1 - They are driven
2 - They care...a lot.
3 - They're having fun.
That person is scary AF.
25 years ago, In 1998, Reed and I flew to Seattle to talk about selling Netflix to Amazon. The meeting went well, and Jeff Bezos floated a price of $15 million.
That wouldn’t have been a bad payday for less than 12 months work, but we thought we were on to something. We had finally gotten the engine to turn over so we weren’t quite ready to put it in park and hand someone else the keys.
Looking back, I know now that this trip was about much more than just selling the company.
It turns out that there’s nothing like having the option to get out that reinforces your desire to stay in.
For Reed and I, this wasn’t a sales trip.
This was a commitment ceremony.
He hablado este mes con decenas de VP de ingeniería, producto y CTOs.
No hay menos contratación de juniors.
Sí se acabó la tolerancia al talento técnico que gana mucho cumpliendo lo mínimo o que hacen lo mismo sin crecer.
Es el cambio cultural más común que veo este año.
"Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know." - @naval