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Looking back at this photo of the Golden Gate disappearing into the famous San Francisco fog, I am reminded of the most important lesson the Valley taught me: how to navigate without seeing the horizon. When you launch a startup, you never see the “other side”, profitability is hidden behind a wall of uncertainty, and […]

Gravity is Just a Suggestion They say realists survive, but only optimists change the world. You cannot build anything great with a sour face or a hedge-fund mentality. In the startup game, you have to generate your own lift. This jump isn’t just for the camera; it is a physical manifestation of the founder’s mindset.

I am standing in the middle of Draper University, and the writing is literally on the wall. Behind me, a massive mural of Superman and Wonder Woman screams a command to the crowded room: “UNLEASH THE HEROES!” In any other year, this might look like a comic book convention. But in late 2017, this is the

In San Francisco, you sit on a beanbag in a warehouse, drinking a lukewarm beer, while that same VP stands two meters away in jeans and a t-shirt, drawing his entire strategy on a whiteboard. I am sitting here listening to a guy who manages a product with 100 million active users. He isn’t hiding

From Google Images to Reality It is surreal how small the world becomes when you buy a plane ticket, and how massive it feels when you are finally standing at the foot of the empire. America teaches you quickly: if you are going to dream, you might as well dream at scale. The New Oil