Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
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The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.
The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.
You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.
It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.
There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.