Julian Mann: Maintain Pursuit of the Simple Idea

And my sort of parting thought here is on the fact that all it really takes is a simple idea. And with Skybox, it's really easy to sort of get stuck thinking about the fact that we're doing things like building satellites and buying rockets and doing all this stuff around the world. But ultimately, the core idea behind Skybox was really, really simple. We were building satellites that looked and felt like PCs in a satellite world where everybody else was building mainframes. And as we started going out and telling people that story, we realized that, yeah, there's a big opportunity when you dramatically reduce the cost of something and increase its accessibility. This is a pattern that breeds interesting results. And so we just kept pulling on that thread. I think Dan already used that term once. And so all it takes is a simple idea. And if you chase that simple idea and you dream big, and anytime anybody tells you that your idea is stupid and you shouldn't do it, you completely ignore them, because you know that what you're doing is absolutely essential and going to change the world, then you have a real possibility at doing it. Keep pursuing it.