The quality The entrepreneur needs: the belief to create something good

Caterina Fake is the co-founder of Flickr and Hunch. Last Saturday she wrote a blog titled Make Things, which was thought-provoking and sparked extensive discussions between entrepreneurs and investors. What exactly did Caterina say?

In fact, this "make things" was a discussion of Caterina and her friend Anil Dash, and the source of the discussion was Dinner Winer commented on Michael Arrington's departure from TechCrunch:

I've tried to get out of Silicon Valley and try to write my dream software to solve all kinds of problems. I've never been rich, in a way, I like money--but I prefer to use the power of technology to make wonderful things. It is completely individualistic and there is no way to escape.

Dinner, an older generation entrepreneur who used to be an employee of Visicrop, a well-known software company, has contributed to the development of web standards such as RSS, blogs, podcasting, and two companies, Living Videotext, Userland Software. When Anil Dash saw this, he felt "it's hard to talk to a new generation of entrepreneurs about such values, and they don't have a good role model."

Caterina agreed with Anil's view. She found that the industry has recently been full of seminars for various entrepreneurial teams, no lack of harangues, everywhere are "personality charm" and a variety of "noise." She found that all the angels in Silicon Valley were aware of Facebook's Jewish tendencies and actions, had a multi-angle view of Zynga's acquisitions, and knew how to call Andrew Mason, which was all the more than 20 years old. But she couldn't hear the teams talking about what they really loved and what they were after.

As co-founder of Hunch and Flickr, she posted it on the table from Freeman Dyson: "There is a sense of satisfaction in making good tools for others." ”。 It is also often asked, where does her driving force come from? In the face of such a problem, she is always embarrassed, because her driving force is not the source of people, but "is inspired by what people create." For her, radios, BBS, personal sites, Usenet, Entropy8, online magazines, blogs, Excel, online communities, Amazon, Salon, EBay, O ' Reilly publications, Google, Friendster, Alamut, Nqpaofu, Metafiter, Blogger, moveable Type, Google Maps, Flickr, Gmail, Last.fm, IPhone, Vimeo, IPad, Kickstarter And so on, wonderful creations are the source of her driving force.

Caterina suggests that today's entrepreneurs, who hear too much noise, crave more wealth than they love to create, deviate from the entrepreneurial track. Tim O ' Reilly points out that great companies in the world are bound to have great faith. Google's belief is to "organize the world's information", Microsoft's belief is "every household has a computer", Apple's belief is "to promote the idea of human progress to make tools to contribute to the world." Entrepreneurial spirit is based on the pursuit of great faith.

Under "Make things", Humby comments:

Entrepreneurship is like indie movies. Many people think that the equipment made good films, such as good music, lighting, high input-output ratio. It doesn't make any sense at all, and if you can't tell a good story, it doesn't make any sense. The real key is the story, and the things you list can tell a very good story (that's a lot of value).

Entrepreneurs, should have such a quality, the most important thing is that kind of creative belief, create a belief in the best things, the kind of real love for what they do. Only such people can make things.

She remembered a book written by John Holt, and there was a passage to describe the very appropriateness of entrepreneurship:

Leadership is not the kind of people who are surrounded by a large group of people. Leaders are those who do not pay attention to the outside world, but do things according to their own convictions, and they do not even care if anyone follows. Leadership is not the kind of charisma that attracts "followers", but the kind of self-confidence and independence (enable them to do without them). It includes at least: courage, toughness, patience, humour, sophistication, cleverness, determination. A keen sense of reality, and the ability to remain calm and sober when things get worse--is this not the kind of personality that we've always heard?

(Original link: ifanr.com/51548)