Paul Buchheit: Overnight success takes a long time
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Saved by 7 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-01-05
- Adelgadob on 2009-01-17 - Tags google , inspiracion , startups , emprender , business
- Ajinkya on 2009-01-17 - Tags buchheit , gmail , FriendFeed
- Jazzgumpy on 2009-01-06 - Tags success , story , startup , inspiration
- Joel on 2009-01-05 - Tags FriendFeed , startup , lesson
- Bankwatch on 2009-01-05 - Tags gmail , friendfeed , buchheit
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However, it does give some perspective. Creating an important new product generally takes time. FriendFeed needs to continue changing and improving, just as Gmail did six years ago (there are some screenshots around if you don't believe me). FriendFeed shows a lot of promise, but it's still a "work in progress".
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My expectation is that big success takes years, and there aren't many counter-examples (other than YouTube, and they didn't actually get to the point of making piles of money just yet). Facebook grew very fast, but it's almost 5 years old at this point. Larry and Sergey started working on Google in 1996 -- when I started there in 1999, few people had heard of it yet.
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This notion of overnight success is very misleading, and rather harmful. If you're starting something new, expect a long journey. That's no excuse to move slow though. To the contrary, you must move very fast, otherwise you will never arrive, because it's a long journey! This is also why it's important to be frugal -- you don't want to starve to death half the way up the mountain.
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