Will Harvey
Will Harvey
Will Harveyis a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Setfor the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Set was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golfand The Immortal. Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Inc., an MMOG company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.
I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.
I've given away tens of millions of dollars over the years - probably to almost every charity in Australia.
Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.
Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.
People don't just come to work to make money; they need satisfaction.
That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.
The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.
There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.
As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.
Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.
When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.