Chad Hurley Quotes

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.

A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

When you start off with your first company, you are learning as part of the process and you make mistakes. The important thing is to recover quickly and learn from the experience.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

So many of the major decisions that affect the entire future of your enterprise happen during its first year in business. In fact, most don't make it because they don't know how to get the resources they need to survive.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here, calling somebody and telling them their dream. I want to be in the seat of the founder.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

My best entrepreneurial advice is to start.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes

To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

I love having real conversations with entrepreneurs who have built their companies from the ground up, with nothing but their own drive, passion, and courage, and I'm constantly learning new things as I hear each one's unique journey.

Every company has a rocky beginning.

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