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Eugene Kleiner, moreover, a founding partner at the premier venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, was originally hired by Bill Shockley at his ill-fated semiconductor company. But the Silicon Valley process that Kleiner helped develop was a different innovation model from Bell Labs. It was not a factory of ideas; it was a geography of ideas. It was

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Going back to how a lot of investors operate, it's very ego-driven. It's very driven by one personality or a bunch of lone wolves who happen to run in a pack, and I don't think that's how capital deployment should work. I genuinely believe we need a hive mind, and that's what we've done at Initialized.

Invest like the Best • Unwrapping the Gift

Disciplined Entrepreneurship

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

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- At the heart of every company there is a growth engine with a test/learn process. - When growth is in your títle you better be growing or you’re not doing your job right.

James Currier • The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis & James Currier

It was late 1996, and eBay’s online auction business had been solidly profitable since it was launched; the company did not need a cent. But Pierre Omidyar, twenty-nine, the original founder, and his new partner, Jeff Skoll, thirty-one, were the rare entrepreneurs who knew they needed to hire a CEO and other seasoned executives with skills they lac