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Keith Rabois explains “Founder Mode” and its similarities to how PayPal was run in the early days
“At PayPal, we never promoted anybody based on their management skill. We promoted everybody based on their craft. So if you wanted to run the design team, you had to be the best designer. If you wanted to run the engineeri... See more
Startup Archivex.comCompeting with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
youtube.comQ: How do you build effective teams?
Keith Rabois, Founders Fund Partner and former COO of Square, has a great framework for building effective teams that he calls: “Barrels and Ammunition.”
When most companies begin scaling, they just hire a lot of people. Naively, they expect that—as they ... See more
Michael McGuinessx.comHow to Define Your Product Strategy | by Gibson Biddle | Medium
gibsonbiddle.medium.comgibsonbiddle.medium.comSublime Principles and Culture (shared internally with the team):
Be fanatic about product excellence
We're not in the business of creating software - we are in the business of building a product people love. Most organizations lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. We have to fight that impulse every
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I sat down a second time with Keith Rabois (@rabois), General Partner at @khoslaventures and CEO at @OpenStore to talk operating.
We spoke about the Hollywood model of startups, picking co-founders, identifying, attracting and assessing talent, raising capital, building a board, delegating, metrics, and knowing what to... See more
Alex LaBossierex.com