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Where the going is good, it boomed almost not thinking about it. now that business industries have gone problematic, thus deep adversities lead to creating new ideas, innovations, new creativity.
I wanted to introduce to you, Paul Saffo, a futurist with over two decades of experience exploring the dynamics of long-scale, long-term change. He was the founding chairman of Samsung Science Board and serves a variety of non-profit boards including Now Foundation, the Bay Area Council Economic and essays which passed in a number of publications.
What’s interesting about Silicon Valley, according to Saffo; “The absolute secret of Silicon Valley’s success is FAILURE – this place reinvents itself because we know our failures.” A lot big name companies in Silicon Valley is founded by people from China and India. This means that the success of this place is not solely from the hands in California, but also with the help of other people across the country. Hence, they are creating a tow-way bridge to success.
Nonetheless, Max Levchin and Peter Thiel went through inevitable outcome from the largest internet payment system, Paypal shopping cart, is having credit card fraud. Nevertheless, the problem resolved. Even a large money-making company can also get caught in the middle of inevitable problems in life.
A lesson here is that, a company should have a GOOD BACK-UP PLAN and a GOOD CO-FOUNDEER. That is, when something went wrong, you don’t hesitate to think as to what to do and the like because you have saved a resource. On the other hand, the strategy used by this company is focused on viral marketing to acquire and retain new customers.
The fact is that the Internet, you know, is going to be an Internet of things, just as today once upon a time with the phone system [when] almost all of traffic on a phone system was voice conversations. Even before we went to the internet, voice conversation became less than half a percent of total volume.
Today, the web, where the most visible part is people looking up information, people interact with information. Hidden behind these things are machines using the Internet? So the web is going to become an environment where maybe a fraction of one percent of the traffic is people interacting with things, and hidden behind that will be machines talking to other machines, sharing data coming off of vast sensor networks, and then occasionally telling us what’s going on.
“Definitely we made a ton of mistakes along the way but we learned from them and that makes us that much stronger,” Hsieh said. “Even LinkExchange was a bad experience from the culture standpoint, but if that hadn’t happened we wouldn’t have gotten it right at Zappos” Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.con also said in his delivery of message to the Business Growth Conference audience is having a VISION higher than profits or simply BEING NUMBER 1.
He is very passionate about his vision to the extent that he has written a book about it, Delivering Happiness: A path to Profits, Passion and Purpose, due out in June.
To all its success, Silicon Valley has really an eye-opener for the rest of us whether you are planning in starting up a business or just sitting there looking at this monitor constantly clicking and clicking.
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