Derek Steer

“I did a nine year run as a CEO, got the company to mid 8 figures in revenue, and then, you know, step down to head off and work on a new thing.”

“The fastest growing companies seem to always be in the news like, you know, now there's a WeWork show and there's an Uber show, like these companies were such horrific disasters internally that they had TV shows. It's like that good. And yet they're so successful. Really successful. These are like the most successful companies. So why? Well, it's that they found something that was really, really, really valuable and they just kept doing that thing at the expense of a lot of other things.”

“We had this SQL tutorial that now does hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a month. These blog posts are like a drop in the bucket compared to that and don't convert particularly well.”