Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you’ll wake up to find yourself doing the same.
Kobe’s going to challenge you and push you. If you have a certain fire, a love for the game, that doesn’t bother you.
Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.
The original concept for JTV was that we would give people a window into other people’s lives. The problem is that if that window is 24/7, when you look in at any random moment, odds are you are going to be bored.
I feel like a lot of the technology that happens in gaming, starts in gaming and it goes broader than gaming.
I needed a break from track, the media and the world. I wanted to just be me.
I think people need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner and let the system do its job.
I’ve been to the top, to eat filet mignon, to have sweets, traveling around the world, having everything at your fingertips, to being embarrassed just to walk around in society.
I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.
I want to go out there and show the world I can stretch my legs even more and exhibit more talent.
If you look at our original business model with the verticalized law firm, a lot of these companies that have this kind of full stack model are not going to survive. A lot of these companies, Atrium included, did not figure out how to make a dent in operational efficiency.
I’ve been an entrepreneur for the past 12 years, since I graduated from Yale undergrad with a degree in Physics and Philosophy, and realized I had no actual marketable job skills.
I went to Yale and I was a physics and philosophy undergrad, graduated in 2005.
You know the Knicks, they weren’t a good team, obviously, when I got here and I just kinda wanted to be a part of rebuilding, establishing the culture here.
Snapchat built an elegant, incredibly well-thought-out tool to make it fun, simple, and frictionless for normal people to share snippets of their lives in an interesting way.
I’m biased, but I see people who have great ideas and are working on things that could be successful, but they give up.