All your #problems can be solved with a press of a button.
• annoyed at the truth messaged to you? — unfriend
• angered by the public critique of your work — block
• lazy to answer a date’s question — unmatch
• resentful about the world’s #progress while your country lags behind — launch the nukes
Ahh… now everything’s changed, and so right, and so joyful. You’re not going to be bullied, or forced to… wait, where’s everybody?
On this day in 2002 eBay acquired PayPal.
PayPal founders / early staff went on to launch:
• Airbnb
• Eventbrite
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Lyft
• Palantir
• Pinterest
• Quora
• Reddit
• SpaceX
• Square
• Tesla
• Tumblr
• Twilio
• Uber
• Yelp
• YouTube
• Zynga
Their commonality? Solving hard, “impossible” #problems — bypassing a stale and powerful payments’ industry with PayPal — a principle applied to most of the other #startups listed above.
The moral of history? Go for the #impossible projects. Life’s too short for easy shit. 😉
What if you knew that fixing bad #problems creates better problems? More fun problems? Increasingly #creative problems?
Would you rather spend your #life avoiding problems or fixing problems?
The only practical way to solve most socio-economic and geo-political #problems is through #education: pic.twitter.com/U7Sds3e0vH
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