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It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

Keith Rabois

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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
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The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.
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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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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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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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I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product
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Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.
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