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New podcast on recruiting (full episode). Links below. Curate People 0:00 The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 3:49 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 6:45 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 10:19 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create
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“Geniuses only.” Nivi: To me, the missing ingredient in most people’s recruiting is intolerance. You should really just treat every employee in the company, including yourself, as an enemy agent that’s trying to destroy the company by bringing mediocre talent into the business.
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@JTLonsdale “Mental illness” is to illness as “social science” is to science.
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everybody wanna be a contrarian but nobody wanna be disliked
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"The quality of your life is what it is when you are doing nothing" - @naval
Visit all the places, eat all the food, read all the books, make all the friends, gather all the fame, support all the causes, build all the products, earn all the money... ...to see that the quality of your life is what it is when you are doing nothing.
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A good demo is critical because investors, like consumers, fall in love with the product *first,* and then rationalize it after.
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Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered, exploited, and discarded. New products need new distribution. It’s hard to hire rule-breakers, so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves.
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Apple: https://t.co/Lt8DFGUnnC Spotify: https://t.co/HClfTpylzz YouTube: https://t.co/qwmqvCKSUq Transcript:
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You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. Today we’re going to be talking about recruiting, hiring, team, and culture. There’s a famous quote from Vinod Khosla, “The team you build is the company you...
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New podcast on recruiting (full episode). Links below. Curate People 0:00 The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 3:49 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 6:45 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 10:19 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create
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In 1971, money changed from a natural system (gold) to a socialist system (fiat). Crypto is tech to replace socialist money with a free-market system. Market systems are inherently competitive and as tech evolves, new monies will continue to emerge to challenge existing ones.
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Apple: https://t.co/FXIko25GZx Spotify: https://t.co/974DhPaw2I YouTube: https://t.co/yDlGiRO9fT Transcript:
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On Elon, iteration and agency
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New collected podcast. Links below. In the Arena 0:00 Inspiration All the Way Down 2:40 Life is Lived in the Arena 4:51 If You Want to Learn, Do 6:14 In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 7:30 When You Truly Work for Yourself 10:11 Find Your Specific
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Product > Distribution Every successful founder I know agrees with it, but every failed founder still blames the distribution, while it’s the product to blame. I think this is the greatest misunderstanding among junior entrepreneurs
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(2/2) So he went to the line where it was taking too long, put his sleeping bag down, and just stayed at the line. And they tried to optimize the robot that was gluing the fiberglass mats to the batteries. They were trying to attach them more efficiently or speed up that line.
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https://t.co/lFYFyw0Rpw (1/2) Nivi: We’ve all seen the pictures of the Raptor engine for the SpaceX rockets, and if you look at the various iterations, they go from easy-to-vary to hard-to-vary. Because the most recent version just doesn’t have that many parts that you can fool
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We’ve all seen the pictures of the Raptor engine for the SpaceX rockets, and if you look at the various iterations, they go from easy-to-vary to hard-to-vary. Because the most recent version just...
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