BREAKING: Alphabet, $GOOGL, has added +$420 billion in market cap today and is now just 6% away from surpassing Nvidia as the world’s most valuable public company.
Alphabet is on track to post the largest single-day market cap gain in history.
Often, the best businesses start with a problem you experience yourself.
You’re not trying to reinvent everything.
You’re just asking simple questions in everyday life, why doesn’t this exist and has this always been done this way?
Those moments can happen anywhere, walking through a mall, standing in a supermarket, or using something that almost works.
Pay attention to what frustrates you, that’s usually where the real opportunity is.
This is a painful truth nobody told you about success:
Rent is due every single day.
A lot of people seem to think that after you make it you can coast in the idyllic land of success.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
Every single day, you have to fight to earn your seat at the table.
And that fight gets more intense as you have more success:
You have more to lose. More mouths to feed. More people counting on you. More expectations.
There's an old saying that I love:
Every morning in the savannah, the gazelle wakes up and knows it must outrun the lion or be killed. The lion wakes up and knows it must outrun the gazelle or starve. Whether you're the gazelle or the lion, when you wake up in the morning, you'd better start running.
Rent is due daily. Pay it with pride.
Watched an interview with Casey Neistat today, who talked about how all the teenagers take selfies on point-and-shoot cameras instead of smartphones now.
iPhone photos have gotten too perfect. The automatic photo editing software has gotten so good that photos have been stripped of personality. By contrast, point-and-shoot cameras produce messier photos, but that makes them distinctive, and people like that.
This is a microcosm of what's going to be a big trend over the next decade: the rebellion against sterile "perfection."