Tag: maker
Innovators, trendsetters and industry leaders often started as hobbyists
In this little video, Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of O'Reilly Media, publisher of Make magazine, reminds us that most successful businesses started from the joy of making something new, or of taking something that already exists and making it better or faster or safer. Did the guy who invented the Slip 'N' Slide hope that, primarily, he'd make loads of scratch? Naw, he wanted to expand the idea of a toy his kids enjoyed.
