I want to have all that scientific information that we’re building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions – and here it’s not just land-use planners, but it’s everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house – can analyze all of these information layers and design a future. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it’s probably higher than that. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
A location-aware tablet will let us use what’s called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share – something we could always do with paper but that’s been a challenge with digital maps in the field. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn’t be done in an office. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early ’90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
I don’t understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don’t get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
One thing that has made us so successful is that we’ve never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want – not what the stockholders or the VCs want. Jack Dangermond Read Quote
