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The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Businessperson
Executive Management
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Edison Township
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The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.
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Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.
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The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.
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At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.
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The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.
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Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.
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Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.
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If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.
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You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.
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Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.
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Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.
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I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.
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Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.
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Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
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You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.
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It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.
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It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.
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Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.
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So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.
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