A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.