Thoughts Must Be About Greatness
So many times when you are at a technology start-up you get caught up in the day-to-day drudgery of trying to make incremental progress. While it is essential to make the tactical decisions and efforts, you have to understand that you are doing something great. Only in making the world a better place (no matter how small a part of the world you are affecting), will you really create value. This thought was on my mind in an email I sent to one of our portfolio companies, PBwiki, this week:
Hello All: I was re-reading Shakespeare’s Henry V last night, and I came to the famous passage in Act IV where King Henry is addressing his troops: This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This actually made me think of our time at PBwiki. And although we are not going into mortal battle, we are fighting a good fight. We are at the precipice of changing the way people collaborate. And some day in the future, people will talk about PBwiki in certain business circles the way they talk about the English on the wind-swept plains of Agincourt. So today as you work to build a better product, sell more seats, or make sure the message is delivered, remember King Henry on horseback telling his compatriots that they are making history.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Great blog, subscribed to your rss feed. Thanks.
July 20th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Great info - keep up the great work.