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Jessica Livingston
8 quotes
“Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one.”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking about something where nothing about it exists yet”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to that, and let the market forces catch up to you.”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Venture capitalists, with the exception of people like Don Valentine, would tell you that they'd rather fund a great team than a great idea. The reason is that if they have a bad idea, great teams can figure out a better one. Mediocre people even with a great idea can screw it up in its execution. Or if they have a bad idea, then they aren't going to be in a position to think about how to change it. They're just going to pursue it blindly”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It's that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That's when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees were either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.”
Jessica Livingston (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source