Heqing Huang

“The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“Technology companies follow the opposite trajectory. They often lose money for the first few years: it takes time to build valuable things, and that means delayed revenue. Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“that “television advertisements would be most effective if the visual display created repetitive vertical movement of the television viewers’ heads”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“defining roles reduced conflict. Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities. Startups face an especially high risk of this since job roles are fluid at the early stages.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future