Koi Vin is the co-founder of Perch CMS. He says exercise and taking care of himself gave him the drive to actually do this. The first product's idea we had was essentially a bug tracker. We worked on it for, I don't know, probably about two years. It never got launched because we could never get it to a point that would cope with launching it.
Rachel Andrew inspires us to understand people who are not like us because most often the products we design are not for us. She motivates us with her successful habit of GTD (Getting Things Done). She teaches us that solid attention to detail and ability to execute can be more important than specific technical skills. […]