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Funding emerging macro trends generates better returns than forcing market change
“You're putting money to try to change a market, to change the world. Then I think that's going to ultimately be calories that are difficult to create a return on. If you are harvesting a change that's emerging and you know that that emerging change is somethin…”
Clark Valberg says remote companies should use in-person gatherings strictly for bonding
“We don't use in-person time to get work done. We use in-person time to get rallied around the vision and to connect as people, as humans, as a culture personally, and not for work, right?”
Information flow requires explicit systems, not just physical office proximity
“If you don't have deliberate systems to ensure that people are aligned to make sure that information is flowing to the right people at the right time and early and often, if you don't have deliberate systems that make that happen, it will not happen, especiall…”
The shift to in-house design teams powered InVision's early growth
“The big change in the world, and I think that the tide that kind of lifted our ship was this transition from the intellectual and design and creative energy around digital product happening outside organizations to it starting to emerge and grow and develop in…”
Founders chasing established market waves will never achieve true market leadership
“If you go chasing a wave that already exists, that's already up there and cresting and moving a lot of water around, you'll never be able to get to the top.”
Most organizational problems stem from just three core personal character flaws
“Most of the problems you have in your life are traced back to about three different character flaws that you have that are just being expressed in many different ways.”
Leadership requires finding your personal voice just like a writer
“Leadership is like writing. Every writer has to find their voice. You have to find your style that comes from you innately, that you're comfortable with, that removes the self-consciousness of your ability to express yourself creatively and fluidly.”
Work-life balance requires alternating between integration and strict separation modes
“So I think about, I think that it has to be very binary. There's two different modes. You have work-life integration, and you have work-life, let's call them separations. So I try to exercise both of them, because I think one or the other isn't enough.”