“Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It’s an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.” Marc Russell Benioff (born September 25, 1964) is an American internet entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He…
“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” Jeffrey…
“It’s stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.” Stephen McConnell “Steve” Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief…
“Hire passionate employees.” David Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! web…
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.[3][4][5] In 1975, Gates co-founded Microsoft, that became the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft,…
“You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.” Reid Garrett Hoffman[2] (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. Hoffman, with a net worth of US$4.7 billion, is…
“If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.” Pierre Morad Omidyar (Persian: پیر مراد امیدیار, born June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of the eBay auction site, and served as Chairman from 1998 to 2015.[3] He became…
“Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.” Lawrence “Larry” Page[2] (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google Inc. with Sergey Brin, and is the CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.[3]Page is the inventor of PageRank,…
“As an entrepreneur, you’re rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.” Adeo Ressi is an American entrepreneur and investor who is best known as the founder and CEO of TheFunded and The Founder Institute.[1] He has been a fixture in the Silicon Valley since…
“Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.” Peter Andreas Thiel (born October…