Jenova Chen Quotes

A successful business must have a sound knowledge of its market and work on how its product or service will be different, stand out and improve people's lives. If you can ensure it responds to a real need in the market place, your business can punch well above its weight.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.'

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

It's all about producing products people want.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.

It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.

If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.