Paul Will
Paul Will
chance execute
The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'
I saw every single movie when I was a kid.
cool cornered swim
Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.
blowing movies summer
Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'
history
The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
people
Some people just get what they want in the world.
customers
Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
bad seemed side social
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.
suppose
I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
ceo found visionary
Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
accounts cases far immediate sold
We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.
experience hard imagine running sort unless
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.
In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.
instead
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.