Words matter. These are the best Bing Gordon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
If you’re living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you’ll be even smarter the second time around.
Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth – and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn’t work out.
The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.
In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn’t have believable, interesting interests, they’re not going to work in a creative business.
As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I’m bad with people who aren’t self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.
The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I’d say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
If you don’t measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, ‘We’re going to do this one and we’re only going to do this one’. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
