Gone for surgery but now I’m back again
CEO & Head of Product at Skillshare
Skillshare Retreat (Fall 2011): Woodstock, New York
It’s been a busy summer for the Skillshare team! We released some new cool features (with many more on the roadmap), closed a round of financing, and added some remarkable folks to our product and community teams. We’d thrilled to…
Skillshare is a service founded by my friends Malcolm and Michael that allows people to host and take classes with each other. Anybody can register to teach a class about virtually anything, you can offer it for free or charge an admission fee if you’d like.
I haven’t taught a class yet (it’ll…
“Men (and women) wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” —Sir Ernest ShackletonApprenticeship is defined as “a system of training a new generation of…
SF is occasionally called “The City That Knows How,” which is no surprise, given its entrepreneurial history (the Gold Rush, duh). Skillshare’s mission is to unlock the learning potential of cities across the country (and, eventually, the world!), and we can’t think of a better place to go…
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I’m sure a lot of you have had this experience where you’re changing, you’re growing as a person.. and people still tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago. It can be very frustrating. ..The best way to deal with this is by keeping our eye on the prize, and turning out some great product.. marching forward, one foot in front of the other.. and it’s gonna take care of itself. By the end of the year, it’s gonna look quite different.
— Amazing quote about people (and very applicable to products) from Steve Jobs the great WWDC video from 1997 (ht to ronenreblogs for pulling it)
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