Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO “The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision,

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Jeff Bezos on raising Amazon’s seed round: “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done” “To raise the first $1 million of seed capital for Amazon, I sold 20% of the company at a $5 million valuation. I sold 20% of the company for a million dollars to 22 angel investors, roughly

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Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong on common startup hiring mistakes “The mistake that a lot of startups make is that they hire too fast. They treat the absence of any negatives as a reason to hire, whereas it should be not just the absence of negatives, but a hell yes - I learned

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Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman explains why your company priorities are wrong “I found out early on that if you can whittle things down to just one thing, you become unstoppable. Unfortunately, people resist whittling things down to one thing because it’s really hard to decide

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Patrick Collison on prioritizing fulfillment over happiness “Maybe this is the rationalization I tell myself, but when I look back through life on the things I’m most glad I did, I wasn’t exactly happy while doing them. Often I was very stressed out or had to work very hard or

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The five things Sam Altman looks for in a founder In the clip below, Sam Altman talks through the five things he believes makes really great founders special and what he would look for in a cofounder. #1: “I always figure it out” and “I never give up” “There are two phrases

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Paul Graham on rage-bait startups: “Scammers don’t make the giant companies” In a TBPN interview, Paul Graham is asked for his opinion on how marketing startups has changed in the last few years and the explosion of rage-baiting exemplified by companies like Cluely and Clad

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Mark Zuckerberg: “Start off trying to make something cool, not build a company.” In 2005, a 21 year old Mark Zuckerberg offered his former classmates the following advice: “One cool characteristic of a lot of the companies that end up being really successful… Is that they

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Jeff Bezos: “Stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn’t be ignoring” “If I find that some particular thing is causing me stress, that’s a warning flag for me. What it means is there’s something that I haven’t completely identified - perhaps in my conscious mind - that

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Keith Rabois explains why Founders Fund doesn’t invest in remote startups “We have a view at Founders Fund that we will not fund a company that doesn’t work in person... The reason why is because if you’re going to build a company on undiscovered talent… the way you learn a

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Jony Ive explains the Steve Jobs product philosophy that saved Apple from bankruptcy in 1998 “Our job isn’t to make money for Apple. Our job is to try and make the very best products we can.” Jony is aware that this sounds simplistic and easy to say given that Apple is one of

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