I think going public is a really smart thing to do. Julie Wainwright More Quotes by Julie Wainwright More Quotes From Julie Wainwright We have a huge opportunity in front of us. Two-thirds of it's outside the U.S. so at some point we'll go overseas but not in the near term. Julie Wainwright company-news When you fail, things get real. In fact, they get real real. If your success was a high profile success, then your failure will be a high profile failure. Opportunities and 'friendships' will evaporate. Failure shines a bright light on all relationships. The ones that last are pure and true, which is a true gift. Julie Wainwright you failure light success I thought to myself, 'What can I do that Amazon can't replicate?' I wanted to do something Amazon couldn't do, and something that I absolutely loved. Julie Wainwright loved something thought myself Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you. Julie Wainwright you happy life people Here is what the world looked like in 2000... there were no plug and play solutions for ecommerce/warehouse management and customer service that could scale... which means that we had to employ 40+ engineers. Cloud computing did not exist, which means that we had to have a server farm and several IT people to insure that the site did not go down. Julie Wainwright service management people world I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself. Julie Wainwright myself me gun business Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage. Julie Wainwright valley definition tesla luxury Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift. Julie Wainwright me trust failure fear The reason we went into jewelry was we were trying to cater to our consigner base, who was saying, 'Can you sell this for me? Can you sell that?' And we said, 'You can bring in your jewelry and watches; we have a gemology and a watch expert on site.' And it just exploded our business. Julie Wainwright me you jewelry business The truth is, Silicon Valley doesn't like people who are older, and they're not that much of a friend of the woman. I certainly was a woman, and I was older. Julie Wainwright woman truth-is truth people If you get a no, your best bet is to find out why. The more concrete your business gets, the more you'll get yeses. Julie Wainwright your best you business I came from a family that loved what they did every day, and they never stopped. Julie Wainwright every-day loved day family Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship. Julie Wainwright you failure time relationship Investors do not like losing money. They do not like companies that fail. They do not like entrepreneurs that fail. There is not a culture of celebrating failure in Silicon Valley or anyplace else. That is a myth. Recognize this, and if you start another business, get it to a successful point before approaching outside investors again. Julie Wainwright you failure money business You tend to do deals with people you have an affinity with, especially at the beginning. Julie Wainwright beginning you deals people I think if you're out there trying to raise capital, and you're a woman, and you're in tech, I think what you need to do is find people to work with who know you and believe in you. Julie Wainwright woman you work people That is the beauty of doing something when you're older. It doesn't matter what anyone else says because you're not doing it to build credibility. Julie Wainwright doing you matter beauty Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation - regardless how sound those numbers are - wouldn't be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure. Julie Wainwright start me hell failure You have a big playbook when you know something is really a win. Julie Wainwright something win know you Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com... is always up there, right? Julie Wainwright right think always people
