The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
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Neil Young: Lack of open distribution stifles long-term platform innovation
“I think the fact that we don't have free and open distribution in the long term stifles the rate of change.”
Neil Young: Relying solely on organic virality cannot yield a predictable business
“It's very difficult for me to imagine building a business with any predictability that relies on, as its sort of core premise, the idea of making things that are popular and viral solely.”
Neil Young: Paid user acquisition is mandatory for crowded app marketplaces
“My sense is that today, paid is the number one thing that you need to think about, especially if you're operating in a very dense or crowded marketplace like the app stores.”
Neil Young: CEOs are likely wrong when trusted board members disagree
“If you've got a group of people that you believe in, and that you trust, and they're giving you advice in a vector that is different than the vector you're pursuing, you're actually more likely to be wrong than you are to be right.”
Neil Young: Mass market adoption requires capturing a hardcore audience first
“The path to the mass market goes through the hardcore, and so every audience that Has a hardcore, and it's something that you need to find and understand and cultivate and deliver a product to, because it gives you this sort of authentic foundation upon which …”
Neil Young: IP natural audience size dictates product performance ceilings
“Everything ultimately has a natural audience. So if you had two teams or two game teams, one game team is working on a game based on Star Wars, and another is working on a game based on Babylon five. They're both exactly the same team, exactly the same game. T…”
Neil Young: Evaluating platform shifts requires assessing timing and changed user behavior
“And so with each shift in platform, you need to ask yourself a couple of Really simple questions is, one, when will it be real? And two, what user behavior has changed, and how do I leverage that?”
Neil Young: Boards should consist of complementary intelligences without overlap
“When you're assembling a board, the thing that you want around the table are a set of complementary intelligences. So what you'd want to try to avoid is too much overlap in terms of their ability to help, help guide you.”