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Starting and building
19 entries on OurWord tagged Starting and building.
Starting and buildingAndy GroveAndy Grove (1936–2016 · Budapest to Intel) — Strategic inflection point. Intel's third…Starting and buildingChu ShijianChu Shijian (1928–2019 · Yunnan) — Up the mountain at seventy-four. A man from Yunnan who…Starting and buildingDuan YongpingDuan Yongping (Contemporary · 1961–) — The stop-doing list. Founder of BBK, and the…Starting and buildingElon MuskElon Musk (Contemporary · 1971–) — First principles. Co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX…Starting and buildingJeff BezosJeff Bezos (United States · 1964–) — The flywheel. Left a Wall Street job in 1994 to sell…Starting and buildingJensen HuangJensen Huang (Contemporary · 1963–) — Zero-billion markets. Founder and chief executive…Starting and buildingKazuo InamoriKazuo Inamori (1932–2022 · Kyoto) — The multiplier. Founded Kyocera at twenty-seven and…Starting and buildingKevin KellyKevin Kelly (2008 · founding editor of Wired) — True fans. Founding editor of Wired. In…Starting and buildingKonosuke MatsushitaKonosuke Matsushita (Japan · 1894–1989) — Tap water. He left school at nine to be an…Starting and buildingNaval RavikantNaval Ravikant (Contemporary · 1974–) — Leverage. Co-founder of AngelList and an early…Starting and buildingPaul GrahamPaul Graham (United States · 1964–) — Do things that do not scale. A Lisp hacker who…Starting and buildingPeter DruckerPeter Drucker (1909–2005 · Vienna to America) — Results, not activity. The man who turned…Starting and buildingPeter ThielPeter Thiel (Contemporary · 1967–) — Zero to one. Co-founded PayPal, was the first…Starting and buildingRen ZhengfeiRen Zhengfei (Contemporary · 1944–) — Endurance. In 1987, at forty-three, he put twenty…Starting and buildingSteve JobsSteve Jobs (Contemporary · 1955–2011) — Subtract. Co-founded Apple, was pushed out of it…Starting and buildingTaiichi OhnoTaiichi Ohno (1912–1990 · Toyota, Japan) — Ask why five times. The principal architect of…Starting and buildingThe Innovator's DilemmaThe Innovator's Dilemma (1997 · Clayton Christensen) — Disruption. Clayton Christensen…Starting and buildingWang XingWang Xing (Contemporary · 1979–) — Nine losses, one win. Founder of Meituan. Before it he…Starting and buildingZhang YimingZhang Yiming (Contemporary · 1983–) — Delayed gratification. Founder of ByteDance, the…
