In today’s New York Times, they covered corporate blogs. They mentioned Bob Parsons’ blog. It was interesting in the story because he didn’t pull any punches in his blog. He gives his opinions on the world without second guessing what kind of effect it may have on his business. That’s inspiring and not typical of American business. The typical stance is “the party line” whatever line that may be.
He has some interesting points.
He speaks very honestly about fear here:
The important thing to remember here is that if you’re going to accomplish anything of any significance, you absolutely have to take a chance. That means that you’?ve got to get out of your comfort zone.
Boy, this is captivating stuff:
Bob Parsons: The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Parking cars for a living.
And then the epiphany happened. I was at a resort, and it resulted when a guy who was working valet took my car and parked it. The guy was obviously very happy doing what he was doing. I thought that was pretty cool. In fact, it occurred to me that if I lost everything, I could park cars and be happy doing it.
I decided I would rather lose everything than shut down Go Daddy.
Those are just from the first two posts. I haven’t even gotten to the Gitmo post that apparently caused a lot of angry customer email.
Thanks for being so candid Bob. You’ve inspired me to be a little less guarded in this blog.
Hot Points ?? A blog by Go Daddy founder and president Bob Parsons