Sanjay's musings

Category Architect | Turning products with traction into market-defining brands. 25 years: Meta, Uber, Marico. Startup Advisor. Girl dad. FPL tragic.

[Sanjay's musings @sanjaymdi]

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[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

insight is rarely linear

you can spend months collecting fragments that feel unrelated, then one moment makes them snap into place

one conversation, one person, one sentence, one tiny rearrangement, and suddenly the whole path makes sense. it’s impossible to predict

keep walking through the fog

[Naval @naval]

We’re searching for permanent satisfaction with an impermanent mind in an impermanent world.

[Naval @naval]

What you really want is a challenge at the edge of your capability.

[Frank Khalid OBE @FrankKhalidUK]

Luis Enrique on the toughest team he has faced.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

hot take :) The biggest and most productive people in the AI era are the folks who are already good at their jobs. AI as a multiplier, not an equalizer/democratizer

[Sanjay's musings @sanjaymdi]

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[Z Fellows @zfellows]

Jack Dorsey:

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For the times when people tell you that “you can’t do it” @willahmed this is one golden

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

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Finally a tech that can challenge legacy organizational structures. @jack

[jack @jack]

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[Z Fellows @zfellows]

Sam Altman on how to be successful

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[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity; it's the clarity of understanding.

[Sanjay's musings @sanjaymdi]

“every business becomes a concierge business” is such a powerful commerce idea. @sarahdingwang 🚀

[Sarah Wang @sarahdingwang]

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[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

— George Bernard Shaw

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

“The best in the world are not the best in the world because they win every point. It's because they know they'll lose again and again and again, and have learned how to deal with it.”— Roger Federer