Find a principle. Don't necessarily have a goal, but find a principle.
The way that you build a real lasting business is by really focusing and narrowing on one specific thing and making a very concentrated bet.
Every business, every single business, is going to see more automation and more AI. People have to get on the program on that, or they're going to be dinosaurs.
If you do everything, you will lose to Microsoft or Google, who does everything, but also has trillions of dollars more resources and 100,000 more people than you.
Fear is the killer and enemy of business. Fear is the thing that kills business.
I think naivety is interesting because you're thinking really hard, 'How the hell do I do this?' The experienced person might think they know how to solve it, but the naive person doesn't. So they're thinking much harder and more intelligently.
The person who's just starting out is probably incredibly enthusiastic and will put everything behind it and work all hours to make it work.
I believe in this idea that if you don't have a crisis, make one. You get people excited, motivated, and drive the necessary change.
You have to hold this idea in your head that any of these wild ideas has a chance of succeeding. And if you're stuck in a particular paradigm or you're dismissing things, you're going to miss them.
Never, never give up. Just carry on and don't worry about what other people are saying.
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