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It just sounds unambitious because of the way you wrote it. GOOG: Hey lets save the entire internet on our servers and be better than anyone else by magnitudes
by wellboy 9y ago
It just sounds unambitious because of the way you wrote it.
GOOG: Hey lets save the entire internet on our servers and be better than anyone else by magnitudes
FACE: I want to have everyone in the world to have a profile on facebook
AMAZ: I want every book in the world to be sold on my website, and pretty much everything else.
AAPL: I want to be better at product design than and become better than Microsoft
MSFT: I tricked IBM into doing distribution for us, but I want a PC in everyone's home within 10 years.
I think those come closer to the founders visions than what you wrote. Some of my versions actually include mindsets that their founders at the very beginning.
- ericjang 9y agoI'm grateful that there is such a wide spectrum of how to interpret the ambition of these companies between yours and the parent post's comment. Thanks :)
- wellboy 9y agoThere are thousands of ways you can describe those companies, marketing speak. That's why words can influence people so heavily, even though the facts are the same.
- johnsonjo 9y agoThe OP's article actually talks about how your goal internally should be ambitious but outwardly only be something simple. So maybe the less ambitious goals were what they told people and the more ambitious goals are what they aimed for. For example Paul Graham states you may be looking to replace email with a todo list like application. But all you really have to say is you're building a todo list application. He says this prevents investors from saying are we there yet and likely thinking you are a bit too ambitious.