Thomas Korte is a veritable expert in the world of startups and entrepreneurship. He is the Founder of AngelPad, a startup accelerator based in San Francisco and New York. Despite having only been around for a few years, AngelPad was named by MIT’s 2014 Accelerator Research as the #3 U.S. Accelerator, and was recognized by Forbes Magazine as a “TOP 5 Global Accelerator” in 2012.
However, before founding AngelPad, Korte worked at Google for 7 years, and was Google’s first International Product Manager. In this second installment, filmed at the 15th Founder Showcase, Korte discusses Google's emphasis on making decisions based on data rather than opinions.
If you have no data whatsoever, you just have opinions. And if you just have opinions, you usually get into arguments with people over your opinions. And then the loudest voice wins."
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