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Neil Blumenthal
American
Businessman
Company
Every
People
Think
Time
You
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Giving employees agency over their workspace encourages them to think carefully about the conditions in which they work best, and it gives them the tools to forge that environment.
Neil Blumenthal
Work
Best
Giving
Employees
Think
Carefully
Tools
About
Gives
Environment
Over
Conditions
Encourages
Forge
Which
Them
Agency
The trick to maximizing your team's productivity is to create a workspace that's flexible, so it can be altered according to the ever-changing needs of the company and its team members.
Neil Blumenthal
Needs
Members
Trick
Altered
According
Maximizing
Create
Your
Flexible
Productivity
Team
Company
Ever-Changing
When my three co-founders and I started Warby Parker in 2010, our primary intention was to sell good-looking, affordable eyewear online.
Neil Blumenthal
Three
Our
Online
Parker
Primary
Good-Looking
Sell
Affordable
Intention
Started
In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.
Neil Blumenthal
Technology
No Exception
General
Exception
Obsolete
Reason
We've built a company that distributes a pair of eyeglasses to someone in need for every pair sold; that purchases carbon offsets; and that hosts mentoring programs at the office.
Neil Blumenthal
Every
Programs
Sold
Purchases
Someone
Mentoring
Hosts
Built
Office
Company
Pair
Carbon
Need
Warby Parker designs experiences, not products.
Neil Blumenthal
Parker
Experiences
Products
Designs
One of the core values of the startup world is that you must have a list of core values. Like all abstract ideas, they're easy to dream up and tricky to implement.
Neil Blumenthal
You
World
Values
Startup
Dream
Must
Tricky
Easy
Abstract
Implement
Like
Ideas
Up
List
Core
Core Values
I personally try to buy the best-quality items at the best price that do the least harm and from companies that are striving to do good - many of those companies are run by young entrepreneurs.
Neil Blumenthal
Buy
Best
Good
Try
Young
Those
Striving
Run
Entrepreneurs
Price
Least
Items
Personally
Companies
Many
Harm
I came to Washington primarily to meet other entrepreneurs. That being said, I was also curious to hear how our federal government was thinking about entrepreneurship.
Neil Blumenthal
Government
Thinking
Other
Meet
Our
About
Entrepreneurs
Federal
Entrepreneurship
Federal Government
Primarily
Also
Said
How
Came
Hear
Curious
Being
Washington
If you peek behind the curtain at any type of company, you'll see that things are far less organized than you'd expect.
Neil Blumenthal
You
Peek
Type
See
Expect
Than
Any
Behind
Curtain
Far
Far Less
Organized
Less
Company
Things
Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history.
Neil Blumenthal
History
Entrepreneurs
Most
She
Dynamic
Social
Florence
Successful entrepreneurs are pretty methodical about the problem they're trying to solve.
Neil Blumenthal
Problem
Solve
Pretty
About
Entrepreneurs
Methodical
Trying
Successful
I previously worked as the director of VisionSpring, a non-profit dedicated to distributing glasses to people in need.
Neil Blumenthal
Director
People
Glasses
Worked
Dedicated
Need
On the day it launched, Warby Barker received more than twice as many visits as our regular site.
Neil Blumenthal
Day
Our
Visits
More
Than
Site
Regular
Many
Twice
Received
For better or worse, cash is the oxygen of your business, and you can't last long in any environment without it.
Neil Blumenthal
You
Business
Better
Long
Worse
Cash
Environment
Without
Any
Oxygen
Your
Last
During times of plenty - when venture funding is abundant and startups multiply like rabbits - every business looks like a winner.
Neil Blumenthal
Business
Winner
Every
Startups
Plenty
Abundant
Like
Looks
Venture
Times
Rabbits
Multiply
Funding
Warby Parker is a data-driven company.
Neil Blumenthal
Parker
Company
It may seem premature, but you need to be thinking of your exit from the moment you accept capital, because at that moment, you've made an explicit agreement with an investor that he or she will eventually be able to gain liquidity.
Neil Blumenthal
You
Will
Made
Thinking
Able
Seem
He
He Or She
Investor
She
Accept
Because
Exit
Liquidity
May
Gain
Explicit
Capital
Premature
Your
Moment
Agreement
Eventually
Need
Just because one company is able to succeed with a specific model doesn't mean others will follow with equal or any success.
Neil Blumenthal
Success
Will
Others
Follow
Able
Equal
Because
Model
Any
Just
Just Because
Mean
Succeed
Company
Specific
It's impossible to predict crises - or to control them once they hit - but you can absolutely prime yourself to ride them out as best as possible.
Neil Blumenthal
Best
You
Yourself
Ride
Impossible
Control
Predict
Once
Crises
Out
Possible
Absolutely
Prime
Hit
Them
At Warby Parker, we ask ourselves a number of questions when deciding whether or not to partner up with a designer, or a nonprofit or brand. Is the potential collaboration new? Is it unexpected? Will it result in something worth talking about over dinner? Will it do good? Will it introduce us to a new audience?
Neil Blumenthal
Good
Worth
Result
Will
Dinner
Partner
Collaboration
Ourselves
Introduce
About
Something
Potential
Parker
Over
New
Talking
Audience
Nonprofit
Questions
Up
Brand
Unexpected
Deciding
Whether
Ask
Us
Designer
Number
Creativity is always intense.
Neil Blumenthal
Creativity
Always
Intense
Every generation trash-talks younger generations. Baby boomers labeled Generation X a group of tattooed slackers and materialists; Generation Xers have branded millennials as iPhone-addicted brats.
Neil Blumenthal
Generation
Group
Every
Baby
Baby Boomers
Boomers
Generation X
Generations
Labeled
Branded
Tattooed
Younger
Younger Generations
Millennials
A workplace that encourages self-awareness is an environment where the most productive, curious, and innovative people thrive.
Neil Blumenthal
People
Thrive
Innovative
Self-Awareness
Environment
Most
Encourages
Curious
Where
Productive
Workplace
For any collaboration to work, each partner must have a strong sense of identity. If one overpowers the other, it's like mixing lemonade with water - you wind up diluting the brew.
Neil Blumenthal
Work
You
Water
Strong
Wind
Partner
Sense
Other
Collaboration
Must
Strong Sense
Like
Identity
Mixing
Up
Any
Lemonade
Brew
Each
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