you need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career. - Reid Hoffman

Start-ups are a wonderful thing, but they cannot by themselves increase tech employment. Equally important is what comes after that mythical moment of creation in the garage, as technology goes from prototype to mass production. This is the phase where companies scale up. They work out design details, figure out how to make things affordably, build factories, and hire people by the thousands. Scaling is hard work but necessary to make innovation matter.

When the Naysayers Are Loud, Turn Up the Music

In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you’re both contrarian and right.