People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs.… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“Wozniak: Well, actually we never did much in the garage. People think we had a garage where we sat down with soldering irons and… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“Even though it seems like it's big business and impersonal, and "they" take care of it, it really isn't. There is no "they." It… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
People think startups grow out of some brilliant initial idea like a plant from a seed. But almost all the founders I interview change… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
