Starting up a business requires lots of sacrifices. Some are expected beforehand. Many only appear along the way. Even though these challenges might sound adventurous, even romantic in hindsight, it takes enormous energy, flexibility, grit while in it. https://t.co/JopNoaS4oA
I’ve interviewed 120 legendary investors, founders and executives on my podcast.
Collectively, they have created over $1 trillion of value for the world.
Here are the best 20 lessons they have shared with me:
In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:
💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.
What are the generation-defining stats of today?
I'll post a few to kick things off...
Map shows the timeline of early human migrations. There are several theories of how this played out exactly. The funky detail that stands out here is that Madagascar appears to have been settled from Indonesia rather than the African mainland? Source: https://t.co/nu8NysRRlh
Unfortunately the customer usually suffers under the cost of legacy systems. It's freeing & enabling to build @BankZeroSA's banking platform from scratch, using new technologies which are more powerful & cost-effective. And which allow new innovative ideas to be implemented.
Green Lines vs. Black Lines
Consider this image from @waitbutwhy:
Black Lines = paths closed
Green Lines = paths open
Stop focusing on the black lines behind you. Start focusing on all of the green lines before you.
It is a future with immense opportunity.