“One of the great mysteries in the corporate world is how to become, own, have access to, or create one of those teams. Everyone is trying to create or buy the team that clicks, performs, outperforms, is super creative, super reliable, super productive, and just ‘has it.’ silverorange, luckily, has been one of these teams. While a lot of it seems up to luck, timing, and chance I think I can shed some light on the other more tangible constraints and patterns that are in place for these teams to happen. This is in no way a comprehensive or complete list. It is merely a list of observations I‚Äôve made.”

“Long before his company celebrated its 2002 stock-market debut, and long before he learned that millions of customers also meant head-to-head competition with the likes of Blockbuster and Wal-Mart Stores, Reed Hastings was just another small-business man fretting his way through the 1998 holiday season, wondering if his 14-month-old start-up would survive the winter. At the time, his company, Netflix, an online movie rental site, had few customers but plenty of skeptics convinced that a service that dispatches DVD’s by mail was quaintly absurd.”

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