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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.

— Paul Allen Idea Man (2012)

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I’m trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.

There are relatively few ideas that you can do just by yourself.

It's very challenging to carve back market share.

What we did was unprecedented, but what is less well understood is that we had no choice.

Idea Man (2012)

There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.

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