Gaia Soykok

"Praise" allows the different types of values to exist, we do not force a top-down incentive systems forcing on what is good but hearing from the community what they value.

Dan Ariely research in India Madurai, when the task called for rudimentary cognitive skills, larger rewards led to poorer performance. but as ing as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they would be expected the higher the pay, the better the performance

The problem comes when we ask a different question, not about how well the group did, but how well the members of the group thought they have done. the answers are remarkable. members of the diverse teams did not feel very sure that they'd got the right answer and they felt socially uncomfortable. The teams made up of four friends had a more... See more

Motivation 1.0: survival Motivation 2.0 :r ewards basedMotivation 3.0 we need to create

Hiring should take at least 1 hour a day on the founders' diary.

Google strategy is that anything less than 100M they do not pursue because their scale is a billion scales. Google because of that missed out on opportunities.

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Investing for Gokul is supporting the people rather than companies. Founder centric investing like YC. he sus out the ones who are in for the money, rather than solving a problem.