“How long have you been here? Less than a year? That’s not a super long time for everything that’s happened….” Have you ever gotten a gut-check on your ambition? A little message from the world around you that suggested it would actually be ok for you [...] Read more »
Today, Jason Cohen used me as an example on his blog ASmartBear.com
This morning I woke up in Vegas ready to fly home from a conference only to discover on Twitter that Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine, had written about me on his blog, blog.asmartbear.com. The title of the post is, “Austin in San Francisco,” but the post is about [...] Read more »
The Entrepreneurial Mindset – Mikey Trafton
Mikey Trafton is the founder of Blue Fish Development Group, Fire Ant Software, an original investor in the Alamo Drafthouse, and mentors several Capital Factory startups. When Mikey and I met in 2012, he told me a few stories that distilled his motivation for entrepreneurship down into radically discrete elements that are so simple for [...] Read more »
Jack Dorsey on Editing His Ideas and Making Twitter + Square Happen
I love how he talks about the intentional, iterative, messy process he was willing to put himself through on the way to fully realizing his ideas. It makes me wonder what ideas are we all having that we’re not giving time enough to mature. Notice also how clearly he can [...] Read more »
Steve Jobs on how he looked at the World. And how we should too.
This is why I moved. And why I’m doing a lot of things now. Read more »
Let’s not make a cult out of failure
There’s a brand new PandoDaily post that glorifies failure in a way that I think is totally unhealthy and misses the point of learning from failures and mistakes. The point isn’t to focus on the failure, the point is to *stop* failing so you can *start* being successful. Those are [...] Read more »
I’m Moving from Austin to San Francisco
I’m very curious to hear the reactions to this blog post. I’m about to make a statement about startup communities with my actions. In 10 days, I’m going to pack up my little roadster and drive 1,800 miles from Austin, Texas to San Francisco, California. That means I’m becoming a [...] Read more »
WP Engine is deepening our bench and expanding into Silicon Valley
Big news “on the wire” today. (That’s a joke, because we sent out a big press release and my Google Alerts for “WP Engine” are ringing off the hook right now.) We have a Press Release going out with the big news. You can read the full release on the [...] Read more »
Startup Education
Note: Today is my birthday. I would love for you say happy birthday in the comments Inspired by my colleague Brian Bailey’s post about a startup education, I started reflecting on what I’ve learned at WP Engine in the last 6 months. WP Engine has been a departure from the [...] Read more »
San Francisco will change your life. A recap of my week in the city
San Francisco = Changes San Francisco is supposed to change people. I’ve never been to another city in the world that compares. The last time I was in San Francisco, I made one of the most important decisions of my life, to become Orthodox. I came with my family after [...] Read more »