Ben Hatten

I'm in charge of the school network for EverFi and a die hard Notre Dame fan.

08 Jul

…it’s really attractive to start a company — there’s an abundance of capital, there are great mentors, there are incubators if you want, and we have this concept of a lean startup, this idea of launch fast, iterate, and pivot if need be, which is great and can be effective.
However, some of the ideas take time to work them out. Maybe it’s not that difficult to get the first few employees, but when you get to employee 15 what do you tell them? It is important to capture people’s imagination and inspire them, and that can only be done by going after really tough challenges or going after something really meaningful. That might not be so easy to do in three months on Amazon Web Services.

– Aydin Senkut

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