Ahmed Elsherbiny

“The problem is not that we don’t want three right things; it is that we often lack the courage to fight for them.”
― Tina Ruseva, Big Heart Ventures - Purpose-driven Entrepreneurship for the Next Age of Technology

“a warning to young entrepreneurs: take money from a venture capitalist, and you’ll end up working for some smug, sarcastic, know-it-all prick like this guy, who will constantly tell you that you’re not working hard enough while he spends his days getting into arguments on Twitter.”
― Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

“All those leaders seized the possibilities created by a crisis. During turmoil, organizational habits become malleable enough to both assign responsibility and create a more equitable balance of power. Crises are so valuable, in fact, that sometimes it’s worth stirring up a sense of looming catastrophe rather than letting it die down.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business

“was not obvious at the time, even to me, but we had one thing that Blockbuster did not: a culture that valued people over process, emphasized innovation over efficiency, and had very few controls. Our culture, which focused on achieving top performance with talent density and leading employees with context not control, has allowed us to continually grow and change as the world, and our members’ needs, have likewise morphed around us.”
― Reed Hastings, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention