Building a startup is very much an endurance sport
Building a startup is very much an endurance sport
Similar Max Levchin quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- No amount of VC money or good marketing can save a bad product. Period.
- No, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.
- I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.
- You will have more regrets for the things you didn’t try than the ones you tried and didn’t succeed at.
- Sell before you start
- In order to get what you want, you need to know what you want.
- Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.
- The vision for Echo and Alexa was inspired by the Star Trek computer
- Help others. When you help others, you help yourself!
- We are very careful about what features we add because we can’t take them away.
- There are good Managers and good Leaders, some of them are good in both and they called Entrepreneurs
- Good is the enemy of great
- If you can imagine it in details, it can be done.
- Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
- You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.
- You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.
- Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.
- If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
- A problem is opportunity shouting at you!
- I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better.