Jessica Livingston

“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…

— Jessica Livingston

Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.

— Jessica Livingston

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the…

— Jessica Livingston

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

— Jessica Livingston

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is…

— Jessica Livingston

“Wozniak: Well, actually we never did much in the garage. People think we had a garage where we sat down with soldering…

— Jessica Livingston

“Even though it seems like it's big business and impersonal, and "they" take care of it, it really isn't. There is no…

— Jessica Livingston

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

— Jessica Livingston

“I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you…

— Jessica Livingston

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

— Jessica Livingston

“Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that…

— Jessica Livingston

People think startups grow out of some brilliant initial idea like a plant from a seed. But almost all the founders I…

— Jessica Livingston

“We need to make sure that we are allowing students to be exposed to future technology and not reducing it to current—what…

— Jessica Livingston

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

— Jessica Livingston

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want…

— Jessica Livingston

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

— Jessica Livingston

“It was just a few million bucks to take us out of our misery, to pay off our loans.”

— Jessica Livingston

“So we said, "OK, we'll do Apple Computer." In those days there was no money yet in this microcomputer business, and big…

— Jessica Livingston

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

— Jessica Livingston

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

— Jessica Livingston

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject…

— Jessica Livingston

“you've got to be investing today in what your future's going to be 5 or 10 years out.”

— Jessica Livingston

“I intuitively did well when I was leading the whole team, but once we got past 25 people, you can't do that.…

— Jessica Livingston

My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew…

— Jessica Livingston

“Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to…

— Jessica Livingston