“To foster the innovation that was key to his vision for Match Group, though, failure had to be a part of the recipe, Yagan said. So, he incentivized failure within the company, asking executives in their reviews to share a failure from the year prior. If their mistakes hadn’t cost the company money,…”— McKenna Moore, fortune.com
“You should be evaluating every spend as "Do I spend that money do I get more cash before my cashout, extending cashout, or less." And then it becomes real simple, the answer is in the numbers.”— Troy Henikoff, linkedin.com
“There are other things you can spend your money on that have a slower payback, a slower trajectory.”— Troy Henikoff, linkedin.com
“There are things that you invest in (they could be marketing, products, salespeople), you make the investment to spend cash. And then, you should get a return on that investment. And cash builds up, and you get paid back, and then some.”— Troy Henikoff, linkedin.com
“Government-backed funds in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, according to people familiar with the matter, have told SoftBank executives they have concerns about SoftBank’s negotiations to buy a majority of money-losing WeWork, whose industrial-chic workspaces and short-term leases have made it one of the…”— Liz Hoffman, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, wsj.com
“Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boat…”— Alain, Emile Chartier, en.wikiquote.org
“Innovation is the process of creating value by applying novel solutions to meaningful problems.”— Joe Dwyer, digintent.com
“If online financial planning, stock picking and Bitcoin trading are in gold rush mode, Perret and Hockey have the surefire business: the shovels and pans.”— Alex Konrad, forbes.com
“The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.”— Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, amazon.com
“Big public companies have learned they don't have to invest in R&D. All they have to do is talk to their VC friends and buy their best Companies.”— Mark Cuban, youtube.com
“The reason why Kevin, Mario and I started a health insurance company is because primarily I had this experience where I opened my health insurance bill one day and had no idea what it meant.”— Josh Kushner, youtube.com
“Search for and follow people who are using popular hashtags like #followme and #likeforlike. Many will follow you back!”— Jayson DeMers, forbes.com
“Did they go to a high school with either "Day" or "Prep" in the name, or with the titular formula "The ---- School," where the blank is something majestic and/or Anglo-Saxon sounding? Then they're playing the slow-and-steady, long game, accruing social capital and personal brand gradually, like ants…”— Antonio Garcia Martinez, amazon.com
“Total commitment, like unconditional love, is the only type that matters. The bike-riding, date-night-going types will never give everything to a company or an idea, and are nothing more than complacent bourgeois, whatever trappings of 'disruptive innovator' they may sport, often in the form of pond…”— Antonio Garcia Martinez, amazon.com
“Designers are problem solvers. If they are constantly being asked to take wireframes and add an aesthetic layer on top of them, you’re going to burn the creative spark out of the individual quickly.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co