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Another awesome Stanford ecorner video featuring Jack Dorsey called The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration where he explains his background, some lessons learned from Twitter, and his three priorities as Square’s CEO.
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A few things that I found most interesting were what he considers his 3 duties as CEO. They include recruiting, internal and external communication, and funding/revenue. He calls himself ‘chief editor.’
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One of his 3 priorities includes storytelling. This is something that I’ve been trying to get better at for a while now. He said, “One of the biggest things that has helped me is learning how to become a better storyteller and the power of a story. And by this I mean, if you want to build a product and you want to build a product that is relavent to folks, you need to put yourself in their shoes and you need to write a story from their side.”
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He left some advice for people at every level of every company… “You have to make every single detail perfect and limit the number of details.”
Phil Libin Keynote - Focus on Product & Design
Great Keynote presentation by Evernote’s CEO, Phil Libin touching on why he believes today is the best time to start a company (if you’re starting one for the right reasons). Reasons being…
- App stores
- Open source infrastructure
- Freemium economics
- Social media
He says to “focus on design and build the best product.” This wouldn’t have cut it five years ago but it does today. Advisors used to tell him that “the best product doesn’t always win” and although that used to be true, it’s not anymore, especially in the consumer internet space.
I also really liked a quote he provided from HBS professor Howard Stevenson explaining what he thinks entrepreneurship is:
“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” Phils interpretation is that if you have a vision or something that you really think the world needs then you pursue it without worrying about how you’re going to get there with what you have right now.
Two days ago I picked up Capri Franklin, my new Jug puppy born on April 19, 2011. She has already learned how to Sit, Stay, and Go Home. Now she needs to learn not to pee in the house.
I’ll continuously upload pics of her here, videos of her here, and you can follow her on twitter @CapriTheDog.
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I can (and have) spent hours here in the past, and recently started coming back for more. Check it out for yourself.
