Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake is an American entrepreneur and businesswoman. She co-founded the websites Flickr and Hunch...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth13 June 1969
CityPittsburgh, PA
instinct natural online
Our natural instinct was to put things online that were public.
photo research sat start wrong
Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed. We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.
beginners done kind
It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.
succeed failing building
It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.
trying hell knows
You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.
successful company persons
No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.
kids climbing accomplishment
Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!
growth handle sure
With the kind of growth we've experienced, we're not sure our servers will be able to handle the onslaught from an e-mail application.