Mark Palmer 1/6/21 Mark Palmer 1/6/21

Resilience, Briefly

I think it's far more important to execute ideas than generate them than most people realize. Leaders don’t just think great thoughts; they execute them. If you hate making tons of decisions without much information; you'll hate being an entrepreneur.

Mark Palmer 1/5/21 Mark Palmer 1/5/21

How Do You Learn to Be Resilient?

I think it's far more important to execute ideas than generate them than most people realize. Leaders don’t just think great thoughts; they execute them. If you hate making tons of decisions without much information; you'll hate being an entrepreneur.

Mark Palmer 12/20/20 Mark Palmer 12/20/20

The Hard Part

Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison remind us that great ideas can be simple. Their original payments system was 7 lines of code. Now Stripe is worth $36 billion. The idea was easy. The hard part was knowing which 7 lines mattered.

Mark Palmer 12/15/20 Mark Palmer 12/15/20

The Art of Value Realization

Streaming data science is like an algorithmic Wayne Gretzky.

Mark Palmer 11/15/20 Mark Palmer 11/15/20

Panera Bread Body Surfing

Panera Bread’s story is pure entrepreneurial inspiration. On NPR’s How I Built This, Ron Shaich, founder and CEO, compared building Panera to body surfing waves in the ocean. I loved that metaphor, and, 10 days, I’m going to share each element of his story, wrapped in the body surfing metaphor and images from some of the world’s best surfing photographers to illuminate each idea.