Ilana Ettinger

To win tomorrow’s war for talent, companies will need to construct new types of employee experiences. The best ones will blend the freedom and opportunity of working for the internet with the scale and community of traditional employment.

Peter Thiel has said that the best startups are like a cult that believes in something true.

Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at.

A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place. It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish.... See more

“Women need to be twice as good to get half the credit. Fortunately many women are four times as good.” —Alison Davis-Blake, former president of Bentley University (p. 17)

What others may see as a moat, we may more earnestly see as “stickiness” or “defensibility” rather than as an outright moat. As we wrote about in  “What is a “Moat” and why does it matter?” , we define moats as  “Proven, perpetuating and permanent unit economic advantages from peers within a competitive set” . These moats need to be rooted in

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