“Pick one thing and do that one thing — and only that one thing — better than anyone else ever could.”
Jason Goldberg, CEO, Fab.com | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
“Only reinvent the wheels you need to get rolling.”
Matt Mullenweg, CEO, Automattic | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
I spy a turtleneck (via CollaboBoardBeautyYeah!)
Being the CEO of a multibillion-dollar global corporation is tough work. Or at least it had better be, considering the amount of money some of these folks were paid just to quit:
- John F. Welch Jr.; General Electric (1981-2001) $417,361,902
- Lee R. Raymond; Exxon Mobil Corp. (1993-2005) $320,599,861
- William D. McGuire; UnitedHealth Group (1991-2006) $285,996,009
- Edward E. Whitacre Jr.; AT&T (1990-2007) $230,048,463
- Robert L. Nardelli; Home Depot Inc. (2000-2007) $223,290,123
- John A. Kanas; North Fork Bank (1977-2006) $214,300,000
- Fred Hassan; Merck & Co., Inc./Schering-Plough (2003-2009) $189,352,324
- Louis V. Gerstner Jr.; IBM (1993-2002) $189,005,929
- Hank A. McKinnell Jr.; Pfizer Inc. (2001-2006) $188,329,553
- Thomas M. Ryan; CVS Caremark Corp. (1998-2011) $185,415,435
- James M. Kilts; Gillette Co. (2001-2005) $164,532,192
- Robert J. Ulrich; Target Corp. (1994-2008) $164,162,612
- E. Stanley O’Neal; Merrill Lynch & Co. (2002-2007) $161,500,000
- Jerry A. Grundhofer; U.S. Bancorp (2001-2006) $159,064,090
- Joel F. Gemunder; Omnicare, Inc. (2001-2010) $146,001,476
- Wallace D. Malone Jr.; Wachovia/South Trust (1981-2004) $125,292,818
- George A. L. David; United Technologies Corp. (1994-2008) $122,631,309
- Margaret C. Whitman; eBay Inc. (1998-2008) $120,427,360
- Leonard Schaeffer; WellPoint Health (1992-2004) $119,041,000
- Bob R. Simpson; XTO Energy Inc. (1986-2008) $103,485,972
- Thomas E. Freston; Viacom (2006) $100,839,772
“The result of this consolidation that gives me cause for concern is the fundamental integration of my entire digital life. When you start pulling together email data with browser data, that really begins to paint a near-complete picture of a life lived on the internet. It’s not just search terms, not just circles of friends. It’s every last digital scrap of me.”
Via NYTimes.com: So much for the free-wheeling, libertarian reputation of Twitter. The company announced Thursday that it could start censoring certain content in certain countries, a sort of micro-censorship widget that would pop up up in a grey box on the Twitter feed.
“Tweet withheld,” it would read “This tweet from @username has been withheld in: Country.”
“The top-level goal for most people is to convince others they are the individuals they want to be, whether that includes being happy, attractive, smart, fun or anything else.”
Mark Hendrickson on social networks | The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched
“I had never noticed before how the G of Gmail was such a different style than the rest of the logo, but now that I’ve focused on it, that G is always going to stick out, the serif-laden man among his serif-less friends.”
“If Amazon is able to get studios and content producers on board with a standalone streaming service, it could spell trouble for Netflix. Amazon may have started out as a humble online bookseller, but it has become one of the most powerful purveyors of digital content.”
Who’s Using Pinterest? Yup, It’s Mostly Ladies
Or, as Gizmodo calls it: “Tumblr for ladies”
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“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve seen Wonderland.”
“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational. It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.”
Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - NYTimes.com
