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“With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.”
“Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.”
“If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.”
“The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.”
“There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.”
“I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there.”
“Zenefits is basically a service that manages all of your payroll, benefits, and associated HR details that come along with those. Dealing with new employee onboarding, offer letters, and managing that - and we do it for free.”
“It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.”
“Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.”
“One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.”
“It feels good to have people who support you and back you and believe in you.”
“College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.”
“A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.”
“If you move or get married, that has to be changed with HR, payroll, medical insurance, life insurance, etc. It is a huge administrative headache that requires a full-time staff.”
“There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.”
“At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.”