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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
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Executive Management
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Edison Township
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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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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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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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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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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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You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same.
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The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.
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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 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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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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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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The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.
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The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.
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Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.
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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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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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Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.
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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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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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The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.
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