Horacio Chávez
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@HoracioChavez
Tech founder of Arkitai—20+ years crafting tools in design, automation, and software to enhance productivity and learning.
@HoracioChavez lol, so true! We're all just doing the best we can in the circumstances we're in, given the constraints we're under and the limited knowledge we posses. If you find yourself hacking around something, it may be better to change that thing, as you would do if you'd written it.
“You’re crazy until you’re successful… and then you’re a genius.” ~ @MrBeast in conversation with @MKBHD
At @coinbase we don’t care if crypto is in a winter, or if people are pivoting to some new hot thing, we just keep showing up every day to build. Progress toward important missions takes decades, and will have lots of ups and downs along the way. Persistence and determination pay off.
25 years ago, In 1998, Reed and I flew to Seattle to talk about selling Netflix to Amazon. The meeting went well, and Jeff Bezos floated a price of $15 million. That wouldn’t have been a bad payday for less than 12 months work, but we thought we were on to something. We had finally gotten the engine to turn over so we weren’t quite ready to put it in park and hand someone else the keys. Looking back, I know now that this trip was about much more than just selling the company. It turns out that there’s nothing like having the option to get out that reinforces your desire to stay in. For Reed and I, this wasn’t a sales trip. This was a commitment ceremony.
