Words matter. These are the best Julie Wainwright Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
That is the beauty of doing something when you’re older. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says because you’re not doing it to build credibility.
The truth is, Silicon Valley doesn’t like people who are older, and they’re not that much of a friend of the woman. I certainly was a woman, and I was older.
I think if you’re out there trying to raise capital, and you’re a woman, and you’re in tech, I think what you need to do is find people to work with who know you and believe in you.
When I turned 50, I truly felt I was too old to work in Silicon Valley. No one said anything to my face, but when you can be the mother of some of the people you’re interviewing with, that says it all.
If you get a no, your best bet is to find out why. The more concrete your business gets, the more you’ll get yeses.
I think going public is a really smart thing to do.
Why are people so obsessed with Pets.com? We shut it down and returned money to shareholders. Besides, there were plenty of other dot-com failures around then.
Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.
You have a big playbook when you know something is really a win.
Amazon has reported a loss of nearly $900M in 1999… because, guess what, ecommerce is a business of scale. And, the Internet bubble had burst… which meant that no one was getting funded.
I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire… But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.
You really need a unique selling proposition, and people need to care about that unique selling proposition.
When I started in e-commerce, there was not a lot of clutter because there were not a lot of companies. Nowadays, you have to have a pretty serious moat around your business to compete with Amazon, Wal-Mart, and even Alibaba online.
You tend to do deals with people you have an affinity with, especially at the beginning.
I’m happy to buy something that was previously owned, as long as I can get it conveniently.
You have to have a unique product that Amazon just can’t source. It’s all about the product. Why is it important? Why is it different? Amazon are not merchants. They are technology platform guys.
Silicon Valley’s definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.
Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation – regardless how sound those numbers are – wouldn’t be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure.
I came from a family that loved what they did every day, and they never stopped.
When you fail, things get real. In fact, they get real real. If your success was a high profile success, then your failure will be a high profile failure. Opportunities and ‘friendships’ will evaporate. Failure shines a bright light on all relationships. The ones that last are pure and true, which is a true gift.
