Crews/The Tech Giants

The Tech Giants

Five seats, one company: taste, platform, customer obsession, the ten-year bet, and a shipper who moves faster than the meeting.

The seats.

Playing it safe is how you end up with a life that's good enough, and good enough is garbage.

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

First, what's the evidence the window is open now? I left Harvard because microcomputers wouldn't wait, but I also kept enough…

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Run the regret minimization framework. Picture yourself at eighty, looking back.

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Bet on it, and I hope pain and suffering comes with it, because that is where character gets built.

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

So the biggest risk is taking no risk at all. In a world changing this fast, the only strategy guaranteed to fail is not taking…