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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
Sam Altman
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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Background updating is absolutely the future.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
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