StartUp / Founder Story
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Great leaders have strong opinions
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The speaker emphasizes the importance of having opinions and taste for effective leadership. They believe that leaders must actively engage in forming opinions about their products to drive business success.
- One of the things that I can consistently look for in people is that they have an opinion
- What I see often is a lack of that stuff
- Why do you care about this product?
- Show me some taste, show me some opinion
- That stuff is really important for a leader
- You have to have opinions
- You have to be able to go to the mat and fight for things
- If you cant like sort of see the playing field, grasp the things that are in the air, talk to others, form an opinion about what this product should be doing
- What I want to see in a 25-year-old is that you have the instinct to be able to do that