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While I like the sentiment, I don't completely agree with the distinction of Visionary vs non-Visionary. He keeps using the example of Larry and Sergey at Goog
by lionheart 16y ago
While I like the sentiment, I don't completely agree with the distinction of Visionary vs non-Visionary.
He keeps using the example of Larry and Sergey at Google.
Well, in the early days they tried to sell the company for around $700,000 I believe.
That's not exactly "visionary" by his standards.
But nobody wanted to buy, so they stuck with it and eventually became visionary.
I think that's how it usually works. Very few people start out with the idea of "this is how I'm going to change the world." I know I'm not.
I want to change the world. I have ideas on how. However, my current business isn't it. And my next two probably won't be either.
What I really want to do will cost millions upon millions in startup capital, decades of experience, connections in the right places. I don't have any of that.
So my current goal is to make products that people want to buy. To make money. To get experience. To get the connections.
And one day, I'll follow my vision.
- jaekwon 16y agoWhat requires that much capital, if you don't mind sharing?
- qq66 16y agoEven in software, lots of things involving entrenched dinosaur industries - financial markets, electronic health records, etc. (but even billions of $ invested is no guarantee of success)
- lionheart 16y agoBiotech and private spaceflight. Two things that I absolutely believe will completely change the world. But currently, very very high startup costs. I'm actually hoping that will change in the next decade though. Probably not very much, but prices should come down somewhat.
- cal5k 16y agolionheart, are you secretly me?