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Jeff Bezos: “Any high-performing organization has to have mechanisms and a culture that supports truth telling” |
“Truths often don’t want to be heard. Important truths can be uncomfortable, awkward, exhausting, challenging. They can make people defensive, even if that’s no |
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Paul Graham: the secret to growing really fast is starting with a “small, intense fire” |
“You’ve got to find people who want what you’re making A LOT. And that's necessarily going to be a small number at first. But that's ok. That’s how these giant |
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Jony Ive on what Steve Jobs taught him about focus |
What focus means is saying ‘no’ to something that you believe with every bone in your body is a phenomenal idea." |
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Naval Ravikant on the importance of hiring high-agency people |
“Everyone is just really good at what they do. They know their job. They do it. They don’t complain. They’re not egotistical about it. And if they have to const |
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Sam Altman's 9 things that the best founders do to build a great company |
“The best founders do customer support themselves. They go visit their users—in the case of Airbnb they go live with them. You want to get to know your users re |
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