Shawn Fanning Quotes

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

If the business were a play, Act One is, 'Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great!' Act Two is, 'We're six months behind on back-end development.'

Early access is very valuable, there are a lot of consumers who would love to see something early.

Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.

We do think deeply about the sequencing of our games, but having said that, Nintendo is well-known that if a game isn't ready, we will push out the development in order to make sure that it is as strong as possible when the game launches.

I was on Twitter right in the first couple months that it was out.

Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.

Regardless of how Beautified turned out, it was a great experience, and it was an excellent product and one that people really appreciated in the space.

Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.

It's all about producing products people want.

When we launched the first version of Basecamp in 2004, we decided to build software for small companies just like us.

There are a few books I can recommend, but one you should read for sure is 'Do More Faster,' a book full of advice for young entrepreneurs. Looking back at the early days of Booking.com, I recognize a lot of things that feature in this the book - like 'fail fast, learn quickly.'

I in fact started doing theatre before a lot of film people started doing it and I started my website before anybody else.

We're trying to build the largest start-up ever without becoming a big company.

If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are many precedents like that in the past. The first to market is not necessarily the winner in the race.

In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.

In 2007, I was living in San Francisco. I came out of business school, and I was very keen on doing something with a small company. I felt that the market, in general, in mobile phones was just going to explode.

I joined the board of Etsy when it was just three founders, and I helped recruit the COO and CTO, Chad Dickerson, who later became the CEO.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

I came to Silicon Valley in 1997 and joined WebEx. At that time, WebEx was small, only 10 engineers and two co-founders.

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.

It's important not only to have the right timing of when the hardware is going to be released but also when we are going to be able to introduce quality software.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn't a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.