Brent Constantz: Big Visions are Right Visions

It's really interesting. I see this with all my companies. You have the big initial vision and in almost every case that's the right vision. And as you go along, especially investors who want to see something very tangible very soon will find easier ways to monetize your inventions and really not get it to the full extent of where you would like to take it. So it's interesting in coming up with a big idea, I think if you're going to go forward with it, what you really want to do is make sure you're building that company. Which is one reason, and I'll go forward to this later, that I think Vinod Khosh and I get along because Vinod's a big thinking guy and he's built billion dollar companies. And he tells his management team, are you building a $100 million company or a billion dollar company? Because a lot of people be happy to build a 100 million dollar company. But he's gone out to build billion dollar companies. With the last company, Calera, the vision was really to build a trillion dollar company in that case. But if you're building a trillion dollar company, then you're doing everything differently from the very beginning. You're not going off on little side markets or small opportunities. You're sticking to your gun and focusing on the big idea as you go forward.