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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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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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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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Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.
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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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The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.
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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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You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.
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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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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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Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.
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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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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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The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.
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Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.
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If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.
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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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What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.
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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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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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Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.
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