“Entrepreneurialism is essentially a belief system: you must believe in something that is bigger than yourself”. A strong message for young entrepreneurs and the entire startup ecosystem. Mårten Mickos has been the CEO of MySQL AB, a relatively small European company that he guided to an exit worth one billion, when in 2008 the company was sold to Sun Microsystems. Not a surprise if the talk he gave for the Stanford University‘s Entrepreneurship Corner in Nov. 2011 was titled exactly in this way: Believe in Something Bigger Than Yourself.
His lesson is strongly inspiring both for startups and big corporations.
You need to believe in something that is bigger than the business you are, attempting to address something that is bigger than everything. You must have a belief in something absolutely enormous that you can do for this planet. You must have a belief that there is something you can do that nobody else can do, and if you do it the world will be a better place. You must have it as part of your entrepreneurial soul.
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