Founders at work - the book

Today is the first significant snow storm of the season in the North East. Finally I arrived at work (after around a 3 hours of fun commute). Of course the train had to break down somewhere between Newark Penn and EWR station, so we (unfortunate passengers) were sitting there for about 40 minutes.

Nevertheless, I wasn't bored at all because I had something interesting to read. The new book called "Founders at work" has arrived last night. The book is unique (IMO) in that it's a collection of interviews of the "fathers" of successful "startups" who are now millionaires. Founders of such companies as PayPal, Adobe, Apple, Yahoo, Hotmail, del.icio.us, 37signals, Tivo, Firefox, to name a few, are talking about all the things that they had to do inside and out to make their companies where they are today - from initial idea, implementation, initial funding, and ups and downs of the early days. The stories are incredible and they show that those folks are not "super humans", but just very smart and motivated people and in many ways they are just like "the rest of us".

I have a feeling that this read will be very refreshing and motivational for me ;-)

Later...