Tips Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square then, to establish a successful start-up: as a "must" and as "impossible"
His Work / / December 26, 2019
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square mobile payment system, made a presentation at Y Combinator's Startup School - School startups. A successful businessman and innovator talked about how to find the motivation to create your own team and start a company. "There's nothing you can not create without the combined efforts and goals - says Dorsey, you just start to fluctuate and do not do anything that does not have a specific time limit."
The report Dorsey attended, and thoughts known teachers, and some interesting techniques that help to organize themselves and start their own business.
In his report, Jack Dorsey mentioned book by Robert Henry, the American realist painter and teacher. Dorsey drew a parallel between the thoughts from the book of Henry "The Spirit of Art" and his thoughts on startup. Founder of Twitter said that entrepreneurs We must build what they want, and thus it is necessary to have a purpose.
All works of art look like as if they were made with pleasure. Robert Henry
Any thoughts Rapporteur drew from the book of a talented coach Bill Walsh NLF "The Score Takes Care of Itself", Focusing on leadership. Dorsey believes that If the entrepreneur can not be the best in your growing company, it is very much to lose.
Focus on yourself and do not let anyone take away what you have built.
Most of his half-hour report Dorsey told how brilliant thoughts and ideas teachers can apply to start-ups. One of the interesting practices, he advised startups future - creating a list of things for self-organization.
Here are a few items from a list of Jack Dorsey:
- Staying in the present moment, not focusing on the past or the future.
- Be vulnerable: not to hide from people their mistakes and fears.
- Drink only water with lemon juice and red wine.
- Every day to do six sets of 20 sit-ups and push-ups, run three miles, to meditate on this list, stand up straight, 10 minutes to keep the heavy bag.
- Say hello to everyone.
- Sleep at least 7 hours a day.
But the "no" list:
- Do not avert their eyes.
- Do not be late.
- Do not expect anything that is not going to perform.
- Do not eat sugar.
- On weekdays, do not drink beer and spirits.
Dorsey said that creating such a list, people have formed in their healthy behaviors, which in turn will help them to live better and more correct. And when all the "must" and "can not" gather together in one list, a person purifies his mind from unnecessary noise and can focus on the things that really matter.
According to Dorsey, all employees of Twitter and Square wrote such lists of "must" and "impossible" to revise and update its attitude towards the organization.
But what happens when things go right, and you move from personal to work together? You are creating something that pleases people and makes them do it.
And the worker and the artist should enjoy their work, otherwise it is not like anyone. Robert Henry