Apps & Movies

"Initially, the films we put together, they're a mess. It's like everything else in life—the first time you do it, it's a mess. Sometimes it's labeled ... "a failure" ... but that's not even the right word to use. It's just like, you get the first one out, you learn from it, and the only failure is if you don't learn from it, if you don't progress."

Back in early 2011, a Stanford student presented an idea where friends could share photos that would disappear in a matter of seconds.

Most who heard the idea said it was a “waste of time,” but he went along anyway.

Several months later the idea became an app from the living room of his parent’s house.

The interface was average and functionality needed work, but he pressed on.

This student went by Evan Spiegel, who built the app we know as Snapchat.

Evan didn’t seek to beat Facebook, nor create a new version of the tech-behemoth.

All he did was make something, then made it better — over and over again.

We tend to forget how the greatest things humans created all began with an idea, a vision.

Building anything valuable and culture-shifting takes time, time well spent.

The power of repetition is powerful and all you got to do is show up.