Nuseir Yassin Quotes

It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

I've always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.

Product development is emotional for me! It's really important as a brand that we feel that our products are going to be life-changing for everyone who buys them. We won't ever launch something we don't feel strongly about.

An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.

Don’t ask our customers what they want. Ask yourself what they would want if they knew what you know of what is possible for us to do for them. The burden is on us to understand the consumer’s needs sufficiently to answer that question.

Wherever we are seeing something getting used, that to us is an early indicator that there might be something that people want. And then let's figure out how to make that great. And then let's go figure out monetization.

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

Our first product was Quicken, which is personal financial management on a PC. It had a tough start, and we ran some tracking surveys to understand who was using it. Half the users claimed to use it in some sort of office environment. We ignored that. I thought it was meaningless.

We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

Your Dream, Vision, Purpose, and Mission all come together when you bring products to market - so make sure you're bringing your best.

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I'm excited to launch 'Waveform,' which will explore everything from tech news and new products to the videos that surround them.

Google is a company whose very existence depends on innovation - on inventing things that are new and didn't exist before - and on refining existing ideas and technologies to allow consumers to do things they couldn't do before.