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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.

Keith Rabois

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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
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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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Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.
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If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.
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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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You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same.
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The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.
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Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.
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The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.
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If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.
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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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The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.
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The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.
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As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.
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Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.
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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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Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.
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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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When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.
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You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.
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