“It’s almost like if you don’t pivot three or four times you’re doing it wrong.”
Evernote CEO Phil Libin, on parlaying a foolish consistency into a $1 billion valuation for his online-storage company, AllThingsD, 3 May 2012
Month: May 2012
REINVENTING THE THIEL
“If it’s been done before, you know, you’re not really an entrepreneur.”
PayPal cofounder turned Facebook backer Peter Thiel, on how one should avoid doing silly things like launching yet another online-payments startup or the umpteenth social network, Forbes, 29 April 2012
CONFIRMED BACHELOR
“Scott Thompson’s degree at Stonehill College was in bachelor science in accounting [sic]. There was an inadvertent error that stated Mr. Thompson also holds a degree in computer science.”
An unnamed Yahoo spokesperson, displaying the attention to detail that let false information about CEO Scott Thompson’s college degree get published in SEC filings in the first place, AllThingsD, 3 May 2012
BITE THE HAND THAT READS YOU
“The government should get out and shut down Tech City.”
British tech gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos, explaining that London’s startup district is so popular that nobody goes there anymore, International Business Times, 2 May 2012
CONVERSATION IS A LOST ARTIFICE
“We continue to talk to Google frequently and on an ongoing basis. They are a company that’s doing several different things right now. Those conversations have a complexity to them that is different than our conversations with the company.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, putting the “skate” in “obfuscate” while discussing his former employer, Business Insider, 1 May 2012
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