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My aha moment of the value of first principles thinking was when I was at Dropbox. We would hire a ton of really smart people that had never done sales and had them do sales. There are a lot of disadvantages to that, but I do think it led to a ton of innovation. That's how we got our very innovative go-to market motions because a lot of those peopl... See more

Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)

Our ability to attract the best startups is based on our reputations.

Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist

Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

Frances Frei

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Shishir Mehrotra comenta que Bill “andava com tecnólogos motivados, mas via o mundo de uma maneira completamente diferente... Via-o como uma rede de pessoas aprendendo a conhecer os pontos fortes e fracos de cada uma e a confiar umas nas outras como o principal mecanismo para atingir as metas”

Eric Schimdt • O coach de um trilhão de dólares: O manual de liderança do Vale do Silício (Portuguese Edition)

Continuous recognition is a powerful driver of engagement:

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

5. Make Team Management Your Highest Priority Product: To be a good product team manager, you need to have been a successful product manager first. "As a group product manager, my job is to help PMs own their ideas, work with stakeholders, get people on board and amplify their insights. Our product managers are my products."

Jack Krawczyk • Product Leadership Rules to Live By From My Experience at Pandora

founding teams should never grow beyond six until there is true product-market fit. Product-market fit (PMF) is the milestone of having created a product that customers are finding so much value in that they are willing to both buy it (after their test phase) and recommend it. Metrics that show whether PMF has been achieved include revenue, renewal

Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

IT’S THE PEOPLE People are the foundation of any company’s success. The primary job of each manager is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. We have great people who want to do well, are capable of doing great things, and come to work fired up to do them. Great people flourish in an environment that liberates and am