[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Persistence]] - People: [[Marc Randolph]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogdgkeQJs6s --- ## Summary - [[If you're smart about the things you choose to focus on, you make 99% of the difference.]] - Work hard to get some breathing room. Once you have it, you can back off. - [[If you want to make the plane, you leave earlier.]] [[Part of success is preparation on purpose]]. - [[Keep trying in the pursuit of something that works, not your currently idealized state of perfect.]] - [[Good ideas reveal themselves; even with sloppy setups.]] ## Notes ### Hard work - "Hard work leading to success is a myth." - "Get yourself far enough from the pack so that you're in open water." - Work hard to get some breathing room. Once you have it, you can back off. - At certain points in your career, you have to grind. ### Running for planes - "It didn't make a different whether you ran for a plane or not. You're either gonna to make it or you weren't going to make it; and the running didn't make the difference." - "So many entrepreneurs are running for planes." - "You don't lose the deal because you weren't up 2:00 that morning because you didn't check the fonts. You lost that deal 4 weeks ago, when you didn't have some fundamentals right." - Sometimes, the outcomes of a setup is completely out of our control. For those cases, it just wasn't meant to be. - For the outcomes were things are within our control, what matters is effort put into the pieces that matter; the prep and the planning, less so the polish. - [[If you're smart about the things you choose to focus on, you make 99% of the difference.]] - [[If you want to make the plane, you leave earlier.]] - [[Part of success is preparation on purpose]]. - "I do not need to get everything right, because most things don't make a difference; some things do." ### Pivotal changes - Product market fit - When you recognize something that customers actually do want. The momentum of the business dramatically shift. - Up until product market fit, it's a constant struggle of trying to find it; trying to increment your way closer. - Try things. Hundreds of things. - [[Keep trying in the pursuit of something that works, not your currently idealized state of perfect.]] - Once you got that fast, things get sloppy. - "If it was a bad idea, even if you spent a month, it wasn't going to make it a good idea." - [[Good ideas reveal themselves; even with sloppy setups.]] - It's not about having a good idea. It's about building a process, a culture, and a system to try a lot of bad ideas.