Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing 78 Million by Cliff Lerner

Author:Cliff Lerner [Cliff Lerner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clifford Ventures Corporation
Published: 2017-11-05T23:00:00+00:00

Focus, Please

Those days were really interesting times around our office. We were getting press coverage and stock inquiries like we were a biotech company that had discovered a way of cooking bacon to cure cancer. It was hard to remain focused, but overall, I think we managed it really well.

How did we keep our heads down and our collective noses to the grindstone amidst such revelry? I think the company followed my lead.

Everyone saw how I responded to all the insanity going on around us—in the news, on Wall Street, and even in the office. The staff would hear that a million different television producers were trying to fly me to La -La Land for an appearance on a talk show. Goldman Sachs was desperately trying to reach me, as well as a gaggle of other financial firms and high -powered individual investors. My response was usually something like, “Gee, I’m kind of busy today, Mr. Buffett, or should I call you Warren? There’s a very important product meeting this afternoon that’s going to take up a lot of my day, but I might have a small window between 3:00 and 3:15, if you’re free. Other than that, it could be a few weeks before we can get together.”

Some looked at me like I was crazy. Others just laughed and shook their heads. It didn’t matter what their reaction was, because the message got through loud and clear: nothing had changed.

We needed to keep innovating, outworking everybody else, and above all, staying focused. None of those things should change just because Goldman Sachs and Maria Bartiromo were calling. That was my message, but despite my best efforts to keep everyone focused and maintain the status quo, some things changed anyway.

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