Tom Rowlandson

Art & Design Enthusiast Co-Founder / Director SPACEPANDA

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@Austen for companies that aren't on the VC fund raising circuit and racing for an exit, this makes sense as a simple way to give employees a piece of the upside in the event of an acquisition

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@mercury <3 Mercury

1) cash back on Mercury Personal

2) interest paid on all account balances not just savings

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@competitionreal Say what you will about the kardashians but they are good at tasteful mods on their cars

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@JonErlichman 384 employees is crazy

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@hamids As long as they’re still supporting the S and X with software and parts resale should be fine

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@ThePatientSpec @costakonti1 @BoringBiz_ It’s funny to read this far down to find you’re not actually talking about sacrificing your own prosperity in your virtuous support of a great reset of house prices.

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

The world belongs to the optimists

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@TeslaPatriot @DennisCW_ Superchargers are totally fine aside from being pretty expensive, there are tons of huge stations everywhere now

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@DennisCW_ The interior quality on the new Y is amazing, previous gen 3 and Y were terrible but the bad interior quality stuff about Tesla is just not true anymore

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@EyeforRetail_ North American outdoor malls…

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Jeff Bezos on overestimating risk and underestimating opportunity

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

For Steve Jobs 70th birthday, here is his favourite quote he used to e-mail to Apple:

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Mark Zuckerberg on the best advice Peter Thiel ever gave him

“Peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote that, ‘In a world that’s changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.’ And I really think that that is true.”

Mark continues:

“Whenever you get yourself into a position where you have to make some big shift in direction or do something, there are always people who are going to point to the downside risks of that decision — and locally they may be right. For any given decision you make, there’s upside and downside. But in aggregate, if you are stagnant and you don’t make those changes, then I think you’re guaranteed to fail and not catch up. So to some degree, I think it’s really right that, over time, the biggest risk you can take is to not take any risks.”

Video source: @ycombinator (2016)

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO

“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision, being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it, and getting consensus on a common vision.”

Steve continues:

“We wanted people who were insanely great at what they did… and the neatest thing that happens when you get a core group ten great people is that it becomes self-policing as to who they let into that group. So I consider the most important job of someone like myself is recruiting.”

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” - Van Gogh

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

Thanks for the call today @typesfast - looking forward to continuing to build our business with @flexport 🙌

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Sharing the note that I just shared with the Flexport team about my return as CEO.

[JoséPablo* @jdomito_]

THE 1984 Macintosh packaging ––

Inspired by Picasso and designed by Tom Hughes and John Casado

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@usmanonus @obviceo @soonastudios +1 for @soonastudios

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@MattMullenax found 'em ;) https://t.co/jqJbFP3SXU

[Tom Rowlandson @findtom]

@codyplof Great list, times like this are tough but my motivation and overarching goal is to come out the other side stronger. We were carrying SO many excessive/unnecessary expenses, it's a lot of work but it feels amazing to dial those in.