John Hull Quotes

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

You can never tell what's going to be popular.

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

With anything new, if it's weird or cool, it will catch people's attention. But slowly, that new thing, if it catches on, it becomes a trend itself.

Trends start and then explode very quickly, and pretty soon it's everywhere, including McDonalds.

I don't even know what is popular.

The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.