Quotes by Brad Feld

Brad Feld

American entrepreneur, and author

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.

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  A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

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  A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

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  A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

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  Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.

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  Anyone who knows me knows I'm a strong advocate for diversity across all dimensions.

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  As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

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  As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

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  As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?

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  As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.

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  At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.

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  By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.

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  December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.'

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  Don't be afraid to have a big vision, but make sure it's a clear one.

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  Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.