Astro Teller Quotes

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

I really believe that the raw ingredient of any creative business is the set of experiences that the team has, the set of skills. I think a simple fact is that if you have a different set of experiences based on how you grew up or how other people perceive you, or if you have a different set of skills, that will produce a better company.

You really want a company that's full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as possible, come together, and come up with great ideas.

I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

I really appreciate that: to walk into an environment where everyone is serious and dedicated to creating the best performance possible and challenging themselves to figure out the most interesting way to approach the work.

The way I feel about rehearsals is that the best idea wins.

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best music ever.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

I love collaborating with different voices.

The reason why Silicon Valley is a worldwide innovation center is because it is a open culture that embraces diversity. You see people from all over the world. When you have many people from different backgrounds gathered together, that is where innovation comes from.