Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #081 — Irrational Exuberance Is a StrategyThe project that Tim Berners-Lee started in the late 80s finally came to a head in 1991. His birthing HTML spawned the World Wide Web … and the rest is history. The part of the story you don't know is kind of absurd: a mere 4 years after the Web began, two 30 year olds in Atlanta decided to launch an internet strategy & web development company … and neither of them even knew HTML!"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." — Miguel de Unamuno Y JugoOn the bright side, Beth and I never gave a second thought to how impossible that idea might have seemed at the time. To borrow from Alan Greenspan, we were irrationally exuberant! We had to teach people what the internet was before we could sell them a website! Yet we were undeterred. And as soon as we got the first sale, I spent the next three days learning HTML so I could deliver our first site! (And then build our own?) Totally absurd beginning.In a 2015 Inc.com article, I read that 96% of businesses fail in the first 10 years. Well, when I sold to Beth in 2009, our business had passed the 14 year mark. And it was only this past December when that company stopped taking on new clients, after 23 years! The stats against that kind of longevity are staggering. Nigh on impossible. And yet …What will you attempt that is absurd?
Posted by David Taylor-Klaus on Monday, August 26, 2019
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #081 — Irrational Exuberance Is a Strategy
The project that Tim Berners-Lee started in the late 80s finally came to a head in 1991. His birthing HTML spawned the World Wide Web … and the rest is history. The part of the story you don’t know is kind of absurd: a mere 4 years after the Web began, two 30 year olds in Atlanta decided to launch an internet strategy & web development company … and neither of them even knew HTML!
“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
— Miguel de Unamuno Y Jugo
On the bright side, Beth and I never gave a second thought to how impossible that idea might have seemed at the time. To borrow from Alan Greenspan, we were irrationally exuberant! We had to teach people what the internet was before we could sell them a website! Yet we were undeterred. And as soon as we got the first sale, I spent the next three days learning HTML so I could deliver our first site! (And then build our own?) Totally absurd beginning.
In a 2015 Inc.com article, I read that 96% of businesses fail in the first 10 years. Well, when I sold to Beth in 2009, our business had passed the 14 year mark. And it was only this past December when that company stopped taking on new clients, after 23 years! The stats against that kind of longevity are staggering. Nigh on impossible. And yet …
What will you attempt that is absurd?
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