I want to do one thing, and do it well.
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don’t execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
Be simple and reliable.
I didnt have a computer until I was 19 – but I did have an abacus.
We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It’s not sexy from a lot of people’s perspective, it’s not glitzy in the feature set, but it’s what people come to rely on.
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads theyll see tomorrow.