A short excerpt from a YouTube interview (uploaded Jan 30, 2024) where Jason M. Lemkin asks a long-running founder (Speaker B) how to stay motivated for 20 years. Speaker B attributes longevity to choosing a large, enduring mission and cites starting in 2003 to "democratize publishing."
2003
You've been doing. But. But what's more interesting than that is you've been doing this 20 years, going back to the very beginning of the first code. Right? 20. 20 years. Any insights and how to motivate yourself for half your life to do one mission?
Oh, wow. I think you just got to pick a big mission. We started in, in 2003 to democratize publishing.
Yeah.
And so that was broad enough that we've been able to stay at that and expanded. And it's evolved over time, of course. Like, what it means to publish has evolved over time. But, yeah, it's pretty exciting to have that sort of North Star that you can go towards.
