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The way to build billion doll...

The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

Alexander Karp

The track record for founders...

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

Alexander Karp

You should always know how yo...

You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

Alexander Karp

To get the very best people- ...

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

Alexander Karp

I think as a rough estimate, ...

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

Alexander Karp

If you look at successful piv...

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

Alexander Karp

You should be giving out a lo...

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

Alexander Karp

Two other things that we hear...

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

Alexander Karp

Great execution is at least 1...

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Alexander Karp

Every first time founder wait...

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

Alexander Karp

No growth hack, brilliant mar...

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

Alexander Karp

Maybe I am a bit unusual here...

Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

Alexander Karp

All companies that grow reall...

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

Alexander Karp

The correlation of quality of...

The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

Alexander Karp

Never put your family, friend...

Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.

Alexander Karp

The hard part of running a bu...

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Alexander Karp

I have plenty of investments ...

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

Alexander Karp

All the reasons that have mad...

All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

Alexander Karp

Companies generally work bett...

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

Alexander Karp

There is a lot of stuff I lik...

There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.

Alexander Karp

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....