Hi everyone. My name is Alan Sass. I'm the CEO of x. (x=doesn't really matter in this equation, but we’re a startup that’s a couple years old). I’d like to create something new, simply called “The Library”.
Our team and I spend our days figuring out new ways of solving problems, with our day-to-day responsibilities consisting of performing product research+distribution for tangible products. We love technology and want to continually learn more about it so here we are today. Spending time today with my family, and thinking of how to structure this post to Hacker News, a site that I visit multiple times daily seemed like a great way to spend the day.
Recently, our team realized that we needed to open up the possibilities and think of topics that we don’t yet fully understand and explore certain subjects that are unknown (to each of us, at the current moment). Multiple team members are partnering up more and more lately to learn and work on building new things together, which has sped up the learning curve for everyone, and has also been very fun at the same time.
Naturally, I started browsing Google+Amazon for ideas, and then started thinking of the problem from the perspective that we have the opportunity to create something new. The something new is a network with new distribution channels that might not have existed before today.
I’m a huge believer in combinatorial innovation, by combining two technologies that did not previously exist together before to create something new. There’s that magical, unique moment that happens only once when you create something new, with the real joy in creation is watching an idea perpetuate over a long time horizon and allowing people to experience things and situations that they never believed that could/would have happened to them before.
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Our team and I spend our days figuring out new ways of solving problems, with our day-to-day responsibilities consisting of performing product research+distribution for tangible products. We love technology and want to continually learn more about it so here we are today. Spending time today with my family, and thinking of how to structure this post to Hacker News, a site that I visit multiple times daily seemed like a great way to spend the day.
Recently, our team realized that we needed to open up the possibilities and think of topics that we don’t yet fully understand and explore certain subjects that are unknown (to each of us, at the current moment). Multiple team members are partnering up more and more lately to learn and work on building new things together, which has sped up the learning curve for everyone, and has also been very fun at the same time.
Naturally, I started browsing Google+Amazon for ideas, and then started thinking of the problem from the perspective that we have the opportunity to create something new. The something new is a network with new distribution channels that might not have existed before today.
I’m a huge believer in combinatorial innovation, by combining two technologies that did not previously exist together before to create something new. There’s that magical, unique moment that happens only once when you create something new, with the real joy in creation is watching an idea perpetuate over a long time horizon and allowing people to experience things and situations that they never believed that could/would have happened to them before.
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