A Head Start Is Rarely Large Enough

I Asked All Of Our Recruiters To Give Me All Resumes Of Prospective Employees With Their Name, Gender, Place Of Origin, And Age Blacked Out. This Simple Change Shocked Me, Because I Found Myself Interviewing Different-looking Candidates - Even Though I Was 100% Convinced That I Was Not Being Biased In My Resume Selection Process.

Our Educational System Is Not Preparing People For The 21st Century. Failure Is An Essential Part Of Entrepreneurship. If You Work Hard, You Can Get An 'a' Pretty Much Guaranteed, But In Entrepreneurship, That's Not How It Works.

Nowadays People Talk About Paypal's Founders As Prescient Geniuses Who Would Inevitably Change The World. It Was, However, Not So Obvious That Paypal Would Taste Its First Major Success By Helping People Sell Beanie Babies On Ebay. But They Had A Vision, A Hope, And The Perseverance To Try Multiple Iterations Until They Got It Right.

At Imvu, We Opened Up Our Board Meetings To The Whole Company.

Zero Invites Imagination, But Small Numbers Invite Questions About Whether Large Numbers Will Ever Materialize.