I don't feel like a different person. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
Nick D'AloisioYahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.
Nick D'AloisioThere is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.
Nick D'AloisioBe fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.
Nick D'AloisioI thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
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