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American - Businessman Born: December 1, 1965

I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.

History Time You Fear

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

Technology Travel Everything Air

I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.

Pine Started Email Microsoft

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

You Today Moment Eating

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

Life Busy Live Pace

A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

Face Leader Blame Nothing

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

Good Health You Good Health

Don't be afraid to have a big vision, but make sure it's a clear one.

Vision Afraid Big Make

I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.

Change Words Saying See

As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.

Future Innovation Believe Key

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While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.

Depression Health Struggle Stress

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

Me Thinking Looking Person

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

Marriage Women Religion Men

I'm usually an excruciatingly happy person.

Happy Person Happy Person

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

Business You I Am Long

One of my core values is diversity of everything.

Diversity Everything Values Core

It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.

People Someone Trying Introduction

So many companies talk about increasing the number of prospects at the top of the funnel, but they spend remarkably little time making sure actions are taken - on a daily basis - to make sure these prospects convert into paid users.

Time Daily Talk Top

Lots of entrepreneurs don't want to be hassled by a board of directors early on. The entrepreneurs want to control the company, don't want to be responsible to a board, or don't want to waste time communicating with board members. This is a classic error of thinking about the early stage board incorrectly.

Time Thinking Control Waste Time

Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.

Great Team New Real

Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.'

Me Money Easy Repeat

One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.

Technology Industry Tech Consistent

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.

Best Business Dog Think

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

Better Understand Wish I Wish

Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.

Life Sad Hope Experience

I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.

Live America Get United States

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