Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
another role model waiting to be emulated. After
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
style—leadership by example, augmented with a healthy dose of impatience—that was positively Bezosian in character.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Jeffrey Katzenberg relied on the entertainment model of yesteryears: banking on celebrity appeal. One example is Quibi shelling out $6MM to Reese Witherspoon. Don't get me wrong. I love her as much as the next person in Legally Blonde. However, no one is rushing to hand Quibi their money as she narrates a nature documentary.
Ari Lewis • Quibi Can Turn It Around By Doing This — Ari Lewis
Ayn Rand, also admired by Trump
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
These creators are running multi-million dollar media empires from a google spreadsheet and a personal credit card which is incredibly unsustainable.
Nisha Rangarajan • embedded finance x creator economy
ERIC SCHMIDT Former Chairman, Google/Alphabet
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
A friend who worked for Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page told me that when teams presented product and business goals to Larry, he would often reply, “What would it take to achieve 100x of what you’re proposing?”