Brad Feld - While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and...

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

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Author Profession: Businessman

Nationality: American

Born: December 1, 1965

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Busy, Busy Life, Flows, Life, Live, Pace, While

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I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.

History Time Fear You

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.

Technology Travel Everything Air

I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.

Up Pine Microsoft Email

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Moment Today You Eating

A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.

Face Blame Leader Nothing

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

Good Health Good Health You

Don't be afraid to have a big vision, but make sure it's a clear one.

Vision Big Afraid Make

I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.

Change Words Saying See

As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.

Future Innovation Believe Key

While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.

Depression Health Struggle Stress

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

Me Thinking Looking Person

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

Marriage Men Women Religion

I'm usually an excruciatingly happy person.

Happy Person Happy Person

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

Business I Am You Long

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