Blake Ross Professions : Software engineer Born : June 12, 1985 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Blake Ross The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable. Blake Ross entrepreneur next lasts I'm a firm believer in shades of gray. Blake Ross gray entrepreneur shade We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day. Blake Ross decision goal thinking Similar Authors Havoc Pennington software-engineer Martin Fowler software-engineer Kshama Sawant software-engineer Theodore Ts'o software-engineer All Authors