Co-founder and chief executive of Dropbox
That night, I realized there are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more words of a story.
Recorded · MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2013
Technology
People on the record here who work in technology, and what they were asked.
28 people · 54 answers
In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life?
Co-founder of Coursera and of Google Brain; founder of DeepLearning.AI
I just finished reading BJ Fogg's new book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.
Recorded · DeepLearning.AI · 2020
Former chief operating officer of Facebook; founder of LeanIn.org
Finding gratitude and appreciation is key to resilience. People who take the time to list things they are grateful for are happier and healthier.
Recorded · Los Angeles Times · 2016
Co-founder and chief executive of Zerodha
Sleeping by 9 pm & getting a workout at 5 am has been helpful. Sleeping early reduces the chances of bingeing when we are drained and have low self-control at the end of the day.
Recorded · Nithin Kamath's blog · 2022
What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Co-founder of Andela and of Flutterwave; founding partner of Future Africa
Do a deep reflection on what exactly went wrong and write it down. Please don't do that lazy analysis where you just blame government, the economy, the markets, fundraising etc.
Recorded · Iyinoluwa Aboyeji on LinkedIn · 2024
Chief executive of YouTube; Google's first marketing manager
Life doesn't offer you the perfect opportunity at the perfect time. Opportunities come when you least expect them ... Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way.
Recorded · HuffPost · 2014
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Recorded · Stanford News (Stanford University) · 2005
Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
The challenge of a big, over-arching vision is that it's hard to know where to start. And your biggest opportunity will change from year to year. Technology changes. Competition changes.
Recorded · Reid Hoffman on Medium
Professor of computer science at Stanford University; creator of ImageNet
Scientists are people who are curious and want to pursue knowledge and pursue truth, and this still remains the most timeless and priceless value of a scientific career.
Recorded · Yahoo Tech
United States Navy rear admiral; computer scientist; co-designer of COBOL
Always remember that it's much easier to apologize than to get permission. In this world of computers, the best thing to do is to do it.
Recorded · Chicago Tribune, 9 December 1982 (via Quote Investigator) · 1982
What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners
Our culture lionizes entrepreneurs who navigate daring switchbacks in their career. Steve Jobs was admired not just for Apple, but also his detour to found Pixar.
Recorded · Reid Hoffman on Medium
Co-founder and chief executive of Dropbox
I was going to say work on what you love, but that's not really it. It's so easy to convince yourself that you love what you're doing — who wants to admit that they don't?
Recorded · MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2013
Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
The second thing there was another thing I learned at Sequoia is that the culture of a business is built in the first six months by the first ten to 15 employees.
Recorded · Goldman Sachs (official event transcript)
Co-founder and former chief executive of Spotify
Many people talk about a willingness to have failures. I hate failures. I don't think you should strike to make failures.
Recorded · Music Ally · 2016
Everyone here · A–Z
Andrew Ng, Bill Gates, Brian Chesky, Daniel Ek, David Vélez, Demis Hassabis, Drew Houston, Fei-Fei Li, Grace Hopper, Hiroshi Mikitani, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, Linus Torvalds, Margaret Hamilton, Melanie Perkins, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nithin Kamath, Ory Okolloh, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Satya Nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, Steve Jobs, Susan Wojcicki, Tobias Lütke, Whitney Wolfe Herd