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People who solve problems are happier.
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Entrepreneur
People
Problem
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Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.
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Needs
Prada
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We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.
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Believe
Impossible
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St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.
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Louis
Customer
Tech
St. Louis
Startup
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I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.
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Operate
Partner
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If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
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Believe
Crazy
Ideas
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If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
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Persuasive
Believe Crazy People
Ahead
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This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.
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Entrepreneurial
Midwest
Fed
Watered
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It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.
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Cities
Concentration
Financial Services
Obvious
Louis
Advantages
Namely
Services
St. Louis
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I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
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Technology
Company
Player
Louis
Attract
Confident
Blossom
St. Louis
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I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.
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Routine
Good Me Way
Certain Level
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Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
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Feel Good
Proven
Science Art Good
Mathematically
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I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.
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Different Things
Replaced
Better People Doing
Better Done Your
Gratifying
Superior
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When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
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Book
Computer Science
Garbage
Writing
Years
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At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.
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Banking
Needed
Companies
Everything Else
Major
Partner
Relationships
Tech
Square
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Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.
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Angel
Deals
Helping
Money People Who
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It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.
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Bored
Time Me Better
Glass
Gotten
New Challenge
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Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.
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Rewards
Seconds
Temperature
Waiting
Adjust
Fraction
Glass
Particular Way
Repeat
Split
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In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.
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Artist
December
Decided
Died
Employee
Entrepreneur
Ibm
Mediocre
Although
Realized
Suddenly
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