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PYRA LABS

1.] Patience and Perseverance

When Blogger had suffered to its lowest point, when all the employees had already boycotted the company, I think that was defining moment for Williams. Instead of turning things into its worst state, he looked at the brighter side of the scenario. It was a make or break point, and yet, he eagerly rose to the occasion and chose not the option of quitting. He was still persevered at that point in time that there still lies power in his visions for Blogger. He sustained the services and he gradually assisted himself with the bills. And with luck coming from sides of the story, Williams had rebuilt Blogger from its lowest point. It was an inspirational story that he had been patient throughout the transition period of having no one around to being acquired by Google. When there’s a will there’s a way! Williams, chose to capitalize on that harsh situation of almost stopping with the business, but he was persevered enough not to upset the blog fanatics and patient enough to build upon what has been lost; he managed to be a one-man effort which brought Blogger to life again.  

2.] Focus

One of Williams’ weakness is his lack of follow-through on the projects that he had undertaken. He had the tendency to bury the business he has originated, and this pattern has occurred repeatedly through-out his early career in his first established company in Sri Lanka. He totally admits that he can’t focus on what he has started. And somehow, this lack of follow-through and focus manifested when they had come up with Pyra. It had many features but he had realized that to earn immense money he had to focus on one distinct feature of it. If he had discovered the potential of Blogger application in the onset, it might have turned out to be different or, should I say, a better success story.  

3.] Follow your instincts

If it were not for following ‘my-own-gut-feel’, Williams would not have survived the start-up scene. He had made the more right decisions than wrong. He had a vision, he owned a plan, he knew who to connect to, he had control of situations, he had the fuel to flourish, and perhaps, he also had the right inklings in the most critical situations. Everything that happened in the timeline of this story was a typical start-up story. You rise on the start, become stable for a while, something gets wrong and you fall downhill, and then you rise from the fall. Williams had a different view on circumstances relative of his co-workers. Although disagreements would frequently arise, he knew in himself that he had to decide, and he had followed what the voice inside dictated him, and it was apparently the ‘right’ selection.