We’ve been busy over the past few months. We’ve grown, hit our stride as a team, and have hit a major product milestone we’re thrilled about. We’re also fast approaching the Web 2.0 Summit, where Jeremie is outlining a vision for the next 10 years of personal computing.
As we consider this future, we’re mindful of the industry’s past – especially its advancements due to the indelible will and art of Steve Jobs.
He went “upstream, against the currents of social, economic and technological norms, all in pursuit of an unshakable vision” (Pogue, NYT), with a zeal best captured by Apple’s “Think Different” campaign:
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in square holes – the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo….the only thing that you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.
Jobs loved to say he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts – he saw things from a unique perspective. His art changed things – how we share, create, connect, experience, and grow. Simply put – he was a Giant.
In the coming days, we’re going to share more of our culture, creations and the ways in which we, too, aspire to change things. We want to humbly recognize that we do it “standing on the shoulders of giants” — not just those of this one Giant, but also those of the entire free open source software movement and community to which even Apple owes a great deal of its success, and to which this phrase is often applied.
And, in light of this Giant’s passing, let’s (as a community, team, advisors and investors) reaffirm not just how we see the future, but how we pursue it. To borrow Jobs’ words, let’s stay hungry and foolish; ignore dogma and embrace intuition; love the art of what we do; and remember through our journey together that the dots are always connected.
Here’s to troublemakers; to giants; and to those who get to stand on their shoulders.
