Top 23 Quotes by Trip Adler

The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, 'We can create a similar kind of experience for books.'

If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.

Anytime there is a new, interesting space that comes along, there are a bunch of companies that enter the market.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.

Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.