Quotes About Innovation

I do everything through Twitter, YouTube or the Internet somehow.

YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.

YouTube keeps changing, and you have to change with it.

I was doing YouTube before YouTube was a thing. I was making videos on my camcorder for my friends. I would do parodies of Britney Spears videos and stuff like that.

It just so happened that I had this place called YouTube where everybody in the world could do exactly what they wanted to do and it's potentially one of the most exciting times I've discovered in the history of anything ever.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.

I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.

Talent is evolving, today people are exposed to YouTube.

When I started, YouTube had only been around over a decade, which is just seconds in the grand scheme of things.

When I graduated college, I didn't get a job. I started making YouTube videos. I used to spend my days making art, and I love that. And, if I'm being honest, what's the hardest thing? I think it's just becoming a CEO from this path of being a YouTuber.

We're not trying to get 2 billion people on Patreon to compete with YouTube.

A lot of people hear the Pomplamoose story and think the moral of the story is to post your stuff on YouTube. I don't think that's the moral at all. The moral is, go where the people are, and be innovative and different. Make something unusual.

There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.

The best tech companies are led by founders with entrepreneurial zeal and strong egos. They consistently deliver what we want and what we need, at prices that decrease over time. The Wall Street firm is a long-standing institution with a more established hierarchy.

The way New Zealand played at the 2015 World Cup changed cricket. The way they went about it epitomised the way they are as a nation.

Bumble is the perfect fit for New Zealand, a country that has always been a world leader when putting women first.

Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations.

I don't get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I've put them.

I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.

People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.