Top 51 Keith Rabois Quotes

#1. Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

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#2. The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

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#3. Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

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#4. The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

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#5. The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

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#6. Treat customer support as a product.

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#7. Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

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#8. Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

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#9. The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around.

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#10. It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.

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#11. I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in.

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#12. Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

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#13. It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

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#14. The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

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#15. What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.

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#16. The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

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#17. If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.

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#18. The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

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#19. If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them ... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

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#20. I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product

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#21. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

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#22. You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

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#23. You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

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#24. You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

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#25. Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

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#26. As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

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#27. At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.

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#28. It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

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#29. Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

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#30. The next thing you do is allocate resources.

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#31. Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

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#32. Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.

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#33. So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

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#34. Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

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#35. The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

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#36. I think you must have your own office. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces.

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#37. Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

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#38. Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

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#39. Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.

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#40. Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know ... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

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#41. Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

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#42. You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

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#43. You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

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#44. You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same.

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#45. When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

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#46. Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

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#47. The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.

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#48. Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

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#49. The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

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#50. You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work ... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

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#51. The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company.

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