Why You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, "I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way." As someone who strives to build products with the craft and quality of Apple, it pains me to admit that The Apple Way can destroy a lot of startups. Which brings us to Humane. Humane raised $230 Million and spent six years to ship an "Ai Pin," with disastrous results.
To build something great takes a low time preference approach, no way around it.
Before you launch, you live in vacuum, and you operate on faith that your theories will pan out.
Build your start-up around other builders.
If I had to give one bit of PR advice to a startup, it's to be humble. I learned this from Twitter's early early years, when users somehow tolerated weekly service outages. I think users forgave Twitter for all its mistakes because Ev Williams is a good guy who cultivated a humble culture. Nobody publicly trash talked Facebook. Even flops like Google Buzz were relegated to a few chuckles on internal mailing lists. I didn't know anyone at the company driven by destroying the other guys.
💯stay humble, take every win like a loss and every loss as an opportunity to grow. Never grow complacent, always keep trying to surprise people. Also I agree @Ev is the 🐐