Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Any great social enterprise—whether it be a great company, a great university, a great religious institution, or a great nation—exemplifies a duality of continuity and change. On the one hand, it is guided by a set of core values and fundamental purpose that change little over time, while on the other hand, it stimulates progress—change, improvemen
... See moreDavid Packard • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
Camp and Kalanick were both Super Founders. Before Uber, Camp founded StumbleUpon, the first web-discovery platform. It enabled users to find new web content with a single click and quickly attracted angel investors, including Brad O’Neill, Tim Ferriss, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, and Mitch Kapor, along with venture capital firms like First Round Capi
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
At the end of the day, what matters is not what happens during the recurrent bubbles, but what comes next. The price to pay for widespread instability is that some investors regularly lose money because they didn’t pick the winner, whereas many employees eventually lose their jobs because they happened to work for the losers. In this context, the s
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
the annual trip of Google associate product managers, a select group pegged as the company’s future leaders. We began our journey in San Francisco and touched down in Tokyo, Beijing, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Engineers—bottom-of-the-org-chart people—could come up with the ideas that would be the next hot products for the company. Everything was open to thought, discussion, and innovation. So I would never leave Hewlett-Packard. I was going to be an engineer for life there.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The new technology that will exist will be one that extends healthy life expectancy. In a world of declining population, this is the problem to be solved, and it will be solved by science. But as I have said, this will create a new problem. A nation dominated by the elderly, however vigorous and healthy, is a nation dominated by the old. It is domi
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
the McLeans understood that the easiest way to control costs was to get employees involved. Holding down insurance and repair bills, for example, meant having safety-conscious drivers. Novices were trained by being paired with senior drivers on the run from Winston-Salem to Atlanta. The senior driver got a bonus of one month’s pay if a man he had t
... See more