'A suspension of disbelief': Beeper, Pebble founder breaks down formula for entrepreneurial success

Eric Migicovsky believes successful entrepreneurship derives from a suspension of disbelief. The Canadian-born founder of Beeper, an open-source chat app that consolidates multiple messaging services, has witnessed the benefits of this principle in the arena of Silicon Valley.

The Canadian-born founder of Beeper, an open-source chat app that consolidates multiple messaging services, has witnessed the benefits of this principle in the arena of Silicon Valley.

“One of the things I love about the Valley, and it’s one of those difficult things that isn’t really felt anywhere else so far, is this idea that anything could happen, that anything is possible,” Migicovsky said in an interview with BNN Bloomberg on Tuesday. 

“There’s almost an experience here in the Valley where you talk to someone at a cafe or you meet someone on a train, and they tell you this wild idea for a start-up, my first inclination is to disregard that, and think of all the reasons why this is not possible, why it will fail. And, inevitably, most start-ups do fail. But there’s something here in the valley where people just forget that.”