The document presents insights from 26 prominent technopreneurs emphasizing the importance of risk-taking, customer focus, speed, and adaptability in business. Key themes include the significance of collaboration, understanding market demands, and the necessity of a strong vision when navigating challenges. Overall, it encourages entrepreneurs to dream big, execute ideas effectively, and embrace user feedback for success.

1. Wisdom from 26 of the World’s
Greatest Technopreneurs

2. If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you
know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of
opportunities on the table.
- Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO

3. - Aaron Levie, Founder & CEO
I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, Why
can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more
efficiently?

4. - Zach Sims, Founder & CEO
Don’t stop, don’t die — even if everyone along the
way tries to kill you.

5. We think more about who
is going to be competing
with what we are going to
be doing, not with where
we started.
- Drew Houston, Founder & CEO

6. - Julia Hartz, Co-Founder & President
For the first two years, when we
laid the foundation of what
Eventbrite is today, we remained
hyper-focused on the customer
and the product.

7. The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a
world that's changing really quickly, the only
strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not
taking risks.
- Mark Zuckerberg, Founder & CEO

8. If you're changing the world, you're
working on important things. You're
excited to get up in the morning.
- Larry Page, Co-founder & CEO

9. When recruiting for a startup, you’re looking for
the future stars—because you likely can’t afford or
convince the current stars.
- Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO
Founder

10. Your career is your business, and you
are its CEO.
- Andrew Grove, Former Chairman & CEO

11. - Hosain Rahman, Co-founder & CEO
At any crossroads, it’s
important to go back to square
one and ask yourself, “Why am
I creating this? Is it still
important?”

12. I knew if I didn’t start a company
when I did, I never would.
- Steve Hafner, Co-founder & CEO

13. LinkedIn
- Reid Hoffman, Co-founder & Executive Chairman
Good ideas need good strategy to
realize their potential.

14. Microsoft
- Bill Gates, Founder
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces
smart people into thinking they can't lose.

15. You’ve got to dream big and love what you’re doing to
become an expert and just make sure you hit it out of the
park and never give up.
- Mitch Lowe, Co-founder

16. - Barney Harford, CEO
The thing that gets me
so fired up about my job
is going to work every
day knowing there is
still an enormous
opportunity to improve
the shopping experience
for our customers

17. If something is important enough to
you, even if the odds are against you,
you should still do it
- Elon Musk, Founder

18. You can’t do everything
yourself. So it is important to
build a support group and to
cooperate with others.
- Irwin Jacobs, Co-founder & Former Chairman

19. When we pay attention to what people want
from work, everything gets better.
- Graham Weston, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO

20. - Akio Morita, Founder
Carefully watch how people
live, get an intuitive sense
as to what they might want
and then go with it.

21. Everyone has an idea.
But it’s really about
executing the idea and
attracting other people
to help you work on the
idea
- Jack Dorsey, Co-founder

22. - Travis Kalanick, Co-founder & CEO
As an entrepreneur, I try to
push the limits. Pedal to the
metal.

23. Lead yourself, lead your
superiors, lead your peers, and
free your people to do the
same. All else is trivia.
Dee Hock – Founder of Visa
- Dee Hock, Founder & Former CEO

24. With the attention I got on
my wealth, I thought I would
have become a source of
resentment, but it is just the
other way around - it just
generates that much more
ambition in many people.
- Azim Hashim Premji, Chairman

25. - Lin Bin, Co-founder & President
We are the only company who
does that: being super open and
embracing user feedback and
upgrading (our software) every
week. We are the only company;
no others.

26. The odds of success can be very
low -- if you stay focused and
persevere it could be you.
- Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-founder & CEO

27. - Tony Hsieh, Founder and CEO
Envision, create, and
believe in your own
universe, and the
universe will form
around you.

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