Part Of The Reason We Like Democracy

Success...is No Longer A Simple Ascension Of Steps. You Need To Climb Sideways And Sometimes Down, And Sometimes You Need To Swing From The Jungle Gym And Establish Your Own Turf Somewhere Else On The Playground.

Silicon Valley Tends To Believe In The Individual Who Creates A Small Group And Does Something Big. Democracy Is Always Frustrating, But It Creates A Society That, For Example, Allows Us To Invest In Each Other's Kids, To Have Public Education, To Have Both A Greater Society And Individual Freedom For Creating Businesses.

People Who Take Risk Intelligently Can Usually Actually Make A Lot More Progress Than People Who Don't.

Now, In Economic Crises Times, The Kind Of Things You're Looking At Is It's Generally Harder To Get Capital, Revenue Growth May Be More, Revenue Lines May Be Unstable Or Growth May Be Less Easy To Predict That You're Going To Get To. And So What You Do Is You Take A Certain Conservative Approach Of When, As All Entrepreneurs Should Do, You Plan For Both Good Luck And Bad Luck, You Put Extra Time On, "okay, If I Have Bad Luck, What Do I Do About That?"

I'm Sympathetic To The People Who Go, "whoa, We'd Like To Have The Benevolent, Wise Dictator. It Will All Work Much More Efficiently," But The Reason That We Remain Staunch Democrats - With A Small D - Is It's A Decades Long, It's A Centuries Long, It's A Country Long Process For Being Inclusive.