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Glenn Kelman
American Businessman
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Control of the browser that people use to access the Web turned out to be far less meaningful than the search engine we use as the starting point for finding Web information. I switch between Safari, Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome browsers all day. I never stray from Google search. Glenn Kelman
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Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital. Glenn Kelman
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If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door. Glenn Kelman
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When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And I finally connected with these guys who started a software company, and almost serendipitously fell into that. I felt like they were goofy guys and that I was a goofy guy. Glenn Kelman
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I think if I had gone to a private school and been coddled a little bit, I wouldn't be as tough as I am now. Glenn Kelman
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I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is that people just can't be genuine human beings in a corporate environment. So if you can really be your own self, even if it's a little bit different, I think people are really drawn to that. Glenn Kelman
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If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists, law firms, and investors exercise their rights to it alongside your own. Glenn Kelman
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We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing. Glenn Kelman
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Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world. Glenn Kelman
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With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly. Glenn Kelman
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I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback. Glenn Kelman
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The tech industry's love for scrappy, accessible founders adds to the pressure. You're expected to lead by example, to roll up your sleeves, to know everything going on. Glenn Kelman
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If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline. Glenn Kelman
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We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts. Glenn Kelman
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Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that we can hardly admit mistakes. This is especially true of first-time CEOs. Glenn Kelman
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When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting as if someone wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with Redfin. Glenn Kelman
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Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is how disconnected and purposeless I felt before Redfin or my earlier startup, Plumtree. All I ever wanted was to get into a situation where I could win. Everybody has that dream. Glenn Kelman
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The problem for new businesses isn't corporate taxes. Anyone who has actually started a new business knows you don't make enough money for years to pay any meaningful tax on it. Glenn Kelman
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The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke. Glenn Kelman
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When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company. Glenn Kelman
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After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I have come back to the way our dad is, realizing that it's sometimes our job to see the world as it could be, as we want it to be. Glenn Kelman
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From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision. Glenn Kelman
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Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public education, and immigration policy are to Silicon Valley's long-term success. Glenn Kelman
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I learned that sometimes you should just tell people the ugliest things about you because those are the things that people trust the most. Glenn Kelman
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Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more. Glenn Kelman
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To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way. Glenn Kelman
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