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Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that we can hardly admit mistakes. This is especially true of first-time CEOs.
~ Glenn Kelman
Admit
Against
CEOs
Conservative
Delicate
Egos
Energy
Hardly
Mistakes
Most
Much
Nurturing
Organizations
Our
Self-Doubt
So Much Energy
Spend
Startups
True
World
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Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them.
~ Glenn Kelman
Beautiful
Build
Hand
His
Hold
How
Jobs
Knows
Make
Out
Pay
People
Products
Steve
Steve Jobs
Them
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The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.
~ Glenn Kelman
Another
Another Way
Anything
Argument
Code
Conservative
Core
Hacker
Idea
Just
Keeping
Liberal
Premise
Regardless
Saying
Trying
Way
Whatever
Whether
Wins
Works
Worth
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copy
The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.
~ Glenn Kelman
Ask
Capitalists
Company
Faster
Growing
Important
Important Question
Most
Prevents
Question
The Most Important
Venture
Your
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The one thing that Redfin has been really good at has been at delighting people.
~ Glenn Kelman
Been
Good
Has-Been
One Thing
People
Really
The One Thing
Thing
design
copy
The problem for new businesses isn't corporate taxes. Anyone who has actually started a new business knows you don't make enough money for years to pay any meaningful tax on it.
~ Glenn Kelman
Actually
Any
Anyone
Business
Businesses
Corporate
Enough
Enough Money
Knows
Make
Meaningful
Money
New
New Business
Pay
Problem
Started
Tax
Taxes
Who
Years
You
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copy
The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke.
~ Glenn Kelman
Almost
Always
Basic
Capital
Early
Fuels
Government
Handle
Idea
Internet
Job
Joke
Like
Private
Really
Research
Spade
Stuff
Work
design
copy
The tech industry's love for scrappy, accessible founders adds to the pressure. You're expected to lead by example, to roll up your sleeves, to know everything going on.
~ Glenn Kelman
Accessible
Adds
Everything
Example
Expected
Founders
Going
Industry
Know
Lead
Lead By Example
Love
Pressure
Roll
Sleeves
Tech
Up
You
Your
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The truth is that I love working. I love my kids. But I don't view one as evil and the other as good. I need to work to be a happy person, to be a good parent.
~ Glenn Kelman
Evil
Good
Good Parent
Happy
Happy Person
I Love
Kids
Love
Need
Other
Parent
Person
Truth
Truth Is
View
Work
Working
design
copy
The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world.
~ Glenn Kelman
Cultures
World
design
copy
Thinking constantly about world domination can give you a little vertigo. The way I usually get through my day is by limiting my horizon to serving the next few customers or increasing revenues in the next few months.
~ Glenn Kelman
About
Constantly
Customers
Day
Domination
Few
Get
Give
Horizon
Increasing
Limiting
Little
Months
Next
Revenues
Serving
Thinking
Through
Vertigo
Way
World
World Domination
You
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copy
Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.
~ Glenn Kelman
Afford
Aspiring
Beautiful
Beautiful Places
Buzz
Capital
Coffee
Coffee Shops
Entrepreneurs
Folks
Forced
Know
Leave
Life
Live
Most
Most Beautiful
Other
Places
Restaurants
Shops
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Stay
Sunk
Talk
Technology
Those
Valley
Venture
Venture Capital
Walks
Who
World
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To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way.
~ Glenn Kelman
Able
Build
Business
Come
Competition
Great
Great Business
Hard
Just
Later
Something
Way
Will
Withstand
You
Your
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VCs are good at asking questions.
~ Glenn Kelman
Asking
Asking Questions
Good
Questions
design
copy
We don't need to take the world by storm. We just need to make our customers happy, and when we do that, the word spreads.
~ Glenn Kelman
Customers
Happy
Just
Make
Need
Our
Spreads
Storm
Take
Word
World
design
copy
We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.
~ Glenn Kelman
All-Out
Favor
Government
Housing
More
Need
Policy
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We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts.
~ Glenn Kelman
Allow
Create
Creative
Culture
Doctrine
Efforts
Folks
Legal
Make
Money
Need
Own
Respect
Technologies
Too
Updated
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copy
What employing thousands of people in the middle of the country has taught me is how good and hard-working Americans in all cities are, and how much most of the country resents our wealthiest cities' sense of entitlement and condescension.
~ Glenn Kelman
American
Cities
Country
Employing
Entitlement
Good
Hard-Working
How
How Much
Me
Middle
Most
Much
Our
People
Sense
Taught
Thousands
Thousands Of People
design
copy
What's most revolutionary about Uber is not the tool that consumers use but the fact that the only equipment needed by its drivers is their iPhone.
~ Glenn Kelman
About
Consumers
Drivers
Equipment
Fact
iPhone
Most
Needed
Only
Revolutionary
Tool
Uber
Use
design
copy
When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.
~ Glenn Kelman
Board
CEO
Company
Had
Leave
Overcome
Problem
Products
Running
Say
design
copy
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