We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

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