Barrels and Ammunition - Keith Rabois

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Q: How do you build effective teams? Keith Rabois, Founders Fund Partner and former COO of Square, has a great framework for building effective teams that he calls: “Barrels and Ammunition.” When most companies begin scaling, they just hire a lot of people. Naively, they expect that—as they... See more

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So I like this idea of barrels and ammunition. Most companies, once they get into hiring mode...just hire a lot of people, you expect that when you add more people your horsepower or your velocity of shipping things is going to increase. Turns out it doesn’t work that way. When you hire more engineers you don’t get that much more done. You actually

Ben Thompson • AI’s Uneven Arrival

Ramp co-founder @eglyman shares the No.1 piece of advice he's gotten from investors: "Barrels and ammunition, from @rabois." -- If you think about people, there are two categories of high-quality people: there is the ammunition, and then there are the barrels.... See more

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