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The best thing about private boards is that you can keep them small—three to five board members is best. You can just have an investor, an insider, and an outsider with a specific expertise you really need.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Steve Jobs explain Management by Values
Key takeaways:
• Finding great people is the most important lesson in business due to the large variance in quality.
• Great people are often missionaries, not mercenaries.
• Individual contributors can be phenomenal even when management and culture is poor.
• Passion for the company can be a motivating factor for
... See moreFounders • #299 Steve Jobs
They started using the Apple II. It was just open to all these things. We made it easy for anyone to do what they wanted to do. And I think that was one of the biggest keys to its success. We didn't make it a hidden machine that we own—we sell it, it does this, you got it—like Commodore and RadioShack did.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The best way to solve a management problem, he believed, was through “creative confrontation”—by facing people “bluntly, directly, and unapologetically.”*