The proudest achievement of my life at that time was that software. Wonderfully organized, extensible, and efficient: the culmination of everything I’d learned about programming in ten years. After a successful relaunch and Christmas rush, I was looking at my plan for 2008 and beyond. All my plans needed a huge effort for little reward, but were required for future growth. I had broken it into about 20 projects, each taking 2 to 12 weeks. But I wasn’t excited about any of them.
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Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
United States
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American musician turned entrepreneur and writer. He founded the independent music distributor CD Baby, sold it in 2008 and gave the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education, and has written Anything You Want, Hell Yeah or No and How to Live.
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