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Mark Zuckerberg on how to avoid bad hires when your startup is growing quickly As Mark explains, every fast-growing startup will repeatedly face the choice: “Do I hire the person who’s in front of me now because they seem good?” or “Do I hold out to get someone who’s even better?” Mark offers his personal heuristic for founders facing this choice... See more

Jensen Huang on how to structure a company: https://t.co/Idw1eMun70

Frank Slootman’s advice for founders learning to be CEO Founders frequently ask Frank (former CEO of Snowflake), “Do you think I can be a CEO?” Frank responds with a question: “Do you want to be?” He explains: “If you want to be, you need to become a student of the role https://t.co/d8f1iWQE7X

My top advice for every hire after you raise your pre-seed: - make every offer a try before you buy two way door (90 day trial, 1 year cliff). - don't over hire early (too senior no startup experience) - prefer generalist over specialists. - focus on engineering and go to market.

Keith Rabois on how to identify great talent “What you want to do with every single employee every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks… and that’s the role they should stay in.” Keith tells the story of giving an intern the task of getting smoothies to arrive at the office at 9pm to reward Square’s engineering... See more