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Mario Gabriele • Harvard, a Media Company | The Generalist
For any business person, "Me too' won't do" feels right intuitively. Action, creation, risk-these lie at the root of invention. Business value does not start with bloodless analytics. Passion, monomania and domain mastery fuel invention and so are central. The compelling continuing contribution of founders demonstrates this. Planning rare
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In 2014, Forbes ranked him as the 134th richest American, at $3.8 billion. One of his hires was Jeff Bezos, who, while researching business opportunities in 1994 for Shaw, got the idea for an online bookstore and left to start a company called Amazon.com. At $30 billion in 2014, Bezos was the fifteenth richest American.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
“Bad companies,” Andy wrote, “are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Amazon Compensation Reinforces Long-Term Thinking
Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
If per-partner profits are to increase, then one of the two conditions must be broken. Either the firm must bring in a different mix of business commanding higher billing rates (i.e., find higher-value work for its people to do), or it must find ways to serve the same kinds of work with an ever increasing proportion of junior time, and a declining
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