Andy Dunn Quotes
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A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
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Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.
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The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.
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You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.
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The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.
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Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
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Honesty is love.
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At Bonobos, we believe in the future of men.
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As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.
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A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
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I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.
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Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.
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Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.
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Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
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Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.
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We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.
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When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.
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To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.
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Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
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With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.