Recently Women2.0 team – Shaherose, Emily and I got a chance to talk to Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch.
It’s really interesting when Caterina talks about how restraints breed creativity. There is a big advantage when you are starting out and nobody knows you and nobody cares about you. There is such a thing as too much money, too much attention, too much traffic – you can get lazy you, you can develop bad products – you see that happening at big companies all the time. You see people taking their customers for granted. When you are small , you are starving and you have to be incredibly creative to come up with marketing ideas, ways to distribute your software. You would not have been same creative if you had tons of cash, lots of attention and people are blogging about you all over.
Check the complete women2.0 video conversation below: