Quotes About Big bets

What was the vision for our team? What big goals would we sign up for? I wanted to decide this in Athens, as a team with Matt in person. I wanted us to make big bets and show the company we could have visions of cathedrals and build them with bazaar methods. What I didn't want was to spend days riffing on yet more ideas, only to return home was as much ambiguity as when we'd arrived. The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

small, nimble organizations like DARPA that were empowered to take big bets on futuristic technologies

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.