When we first showed the Karma in January 2008, we had barely started the company.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.
When we first began, we didn't have any hits.
When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.
We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.
It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits' end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.
I don't believe in karma.
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.