Create More Value Than You Capture
Tim O’Reilly is one of several people that I’ve admired for a number of years. Several months ago Chester and I had the opportunity to make the trek to Sebastopol to meet with him. Little did he know I was so excited about meeting him that I had to refrain from asking him to autograph my forehead. Yes, I’m that big of a fan.
Tim was one of the first individuals we wanted to tell our story to. He cares about the potential of technology and products created by developers to change things for the better. He cares about the now and the long term. We hope to play our part in changing things for the better, to help fuel innovation, but to do so requires we build strong relationships with individuals who can help us ensure we understand the consequences of our decisions.
The goal being to “Create more value than we capture”. I borrowed that quote from Tim. It’s a beautiful, simple and powerful decision making framework.
As we sat in a conference room staring through the windows at O’Reilly Media we were certain we had just seen Tim floating out of some tree’s from a hill behind the building. It was perfect. I’ve heard a few people call Tim “The Oracle” and seeing him float toward us set the stage. If you know me, you know I can ramble on, and despite this Tim worked his way to the core of our concept and it’s value and challenges faster than anything imaginable (Moore’s law somehow got applied to his brain). As impressive was his ability and wanting to help us think about solutions on the fly.
I would guess our meeting was an ordinary moment that Tim will barely remember, beyond perhaps my excited rambling, but for me it was extraordinary.
We released our funding announcement yesterday and with great pleasure we were able to include a quote from Tim.
Thank You Tim,
Darrius (aka Fanboy)
Press Release Here:
A Couple of Recent Stories Here:
P.S. We thank Bunnie, hardware engineer extraordinaire, for making the original introduction.
