After a couple of years in a professional setting, you'll get used to dressing presentably, preparing for meetings, speaking appropriately, showing up on time, writing professional correspondence, etc.
— Andrew Yang
It's easy to see how non-profits become engrossed in catering to donors, which may or may not be the best thing at all times, while if a company is ultra-engaged with its customers, it's universally positive and helpful.
I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.
We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.
The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is push my dog off of me. He likes to sleep on top of me. I think it's because I'm warm and breathing.
Income taxes are very poor at generating income from automation because the gains are realized by technology companies that are experts at not paying taxes.
I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.
The reason Donald Trump was elected was that we automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. If you look at the voter data, it shows that the higher the level of concentration of manufacturing robots in a district, the more that district voted for Trump.
People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.
When I was first thinking about what would become Venture for America, I was trying to figure out how to solve a problem - that our top young people were being driven to roles that did not, to me, address the needs of our time. That VFA would be a non-profit just seemed like the most efficient way to solve the problem.
Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.
Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result.
I wear a suit most days, in part because it's suitable for any type of meeting and in part because it takes the thought out of it.
The monetary market is going to value people's time less and less as time goes on, so you need another way to structure their day that rewards them.
All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society.
If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.
Back in 2001, my first start-up was mentioned in the 'New York Times' and 'USA Today.' I figured that would drive thousands of visitors to the site and tons of new business. Instead, only a handful of people visited our site, and not much business came of it at all.
The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.
In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.
Tell young girls they can be anything, including entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. Encourage your friends/daughters/female students/yourself to take a shot.
I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.
Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.
Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.
