“Great design simplifying complex consumer problems; getting to small but important data; popularization of robotics”
“Larry Page, Google, on doubling engineering: have each of your current engineers recruit another each year. Zappos decided to replace engineers with customers.”
“Buying whole pizzas and selling them by the slice to roommates. It wasn’t predatory – honest!”
“Scaling Zappos on a shoe-string budget while competing against Amazon and Nordstrom”
“Professor Harry Lewis / CS 121 at Harvard: Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation”
“Monster -- because I tried to make up for my lack of athletic skill with a lack of fear”
“Telling mom I was quitting my Ph.D. to work with startups instead. She still nags me about it.”
“Abacus, which I could never use despite my dad being the #2 abacus champion in Taiwan”
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Venture Team
We like working with founders at the earliest stages of company creation. We almost always have one or two of these small companies working inside our office, within shouting distance of recruiting, marketing, business development services—and, of course, our Partners.
