{"id":2394,"date":"2019-07-29T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2019-08-16T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T07:37:09","slug":"lessons-from-james-dyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/lessons-from-james-dyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from James Dyson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been a fan of Guy Raz and How I Built this from NPR. I look forward to its episodes and have heard some truly fascinating stories of grit, determinations and growth. This is where I heard the Whole Foods Story from John Mackey ( remember the multibillion dollar Amazon acquisition?), of Jerry Murrell of Five Guys and a Burger, Melanie Perkins of Canva  and today James Dyson and his vacuum cleaner story.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/07\/19\/ep68-dyson_wide-0cac8437ffbe9316816290795248fbefdbfb3dbf-s800-c85.jpg?w=810&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"James Dyson\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is fascinating to know that James Dyson is worth $5.4B and behind a bunch of wildly popular products (the bladeless fan for one) has some strong views on Venture funding. No wonder he never raised  any. He owns his companies entirely. Lessons learnt? Understanding the importance of owning the majority if not all the shares of your company, charging customers enough, (not) running a company that doesn\u2019t make money are all critical lessons. \u201cYou create your own luck, In a race when you are tired, so are the others and  that\u2019s when you accelerate, in technology when you feel like giving up, that is when others will give up..that\u2019s when you put extra effort\u2026when you do that, and success is literally just round the corner.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a listen &#8211; wonderful way to start the week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt it #210 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/19\/743512256\/dyson-james-dyson\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/19\/743512256\/dyson-james-dyson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a fan of Guy Raz and How I Built this from NPR. I look forward to its episodes and have heard some truly fascinating stories of grit, determinations and growth. This is where I heard the Whole Foods Story from John Mackey ( remember the multibillion dollar Amazon acquisition?), of Jerry Murrell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/lessons-from-james-dyson\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,83],"tags":[70,81],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-startup","tag-alwayslearning","tag-startups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-CC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}