By Larry Chiang
In the movie Inside Out, goofball island is a place inside your head. If you cease to stay a child, goof ball island goes offline. Let goof ball island go unused for too long and it goes away forever. Stay mad at nothing and you can’t find goofball island on a mind map
Goofball island applies to being a founder because
-1- you need beginner’s mind (Marc Benioff)
-2- laughing helps you learn
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
My goof-ball island encapsulates and augments money-family-work-money #InsideOut #expTransFax pic.twitter.com/T1R15OIntH
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Lol co-founders who sold a startup to Twitter

Throwing up Hookem even though I’m moderating a 2008 SXSW panel, U of Illinois doesn’t hook, we probate. And I taught at Stanford

The motto actually does not make sense.