Joe Kraus
Joe Kraus
Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer. Currently, Kraus is an Investment Partner on the GV team...
missing cost hiring
The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.
reality optimism balance
Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.
company ifs values
Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.
vcr important television
Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.
casual companies global hallway hard ideas internet ironic lunch meetings pace phenomenon silicon
It is ironic that the Internet is a global phenomenon -- yet if you're not in Silicon Valley, it's really hard to get a sense of the pace and the connections between those companies. So many of the ideas get transferred in hallway conversations, meetings over lunch and the casual interactions of the companies that are proximate.
again creating familiar people time visit
Creating a familiar and comfortable place for people to visit time and again has always been important to Excite.
thinking creating people
We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.