Rafael Beckel

Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997.

I have found the “The Basics of Production,” the first chapter of Andy Grove’s High Output Management, to be particularly helpful.

if you ask enough questions, strange as they seem at the time, you may eventually learn something worthwhile. The first trick of asking questions is to determine if your question is a good one. Just because a question has never been asked does not make it good. Smart people have been asking questions for quite a few centuries now, so many of the

An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.

“Productivity is for robots. Humans excel at wasting time, experimenting, playing, creating, and exploring.”31 Governing by numbers is the last resort of a country that no longer knows what it wants, a country with no vision of utopia.

Marc: “Do you know the best thing about startups?” Ben: “What?” Marc: “You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.”

Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.