The Best People Don’t Need To Be Managed: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs hired some of the best employees at any company in the world, and he says there was something common to many…
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People Who Start Companies Just To Make Money Don’t Succeed: Steve Jobs
Most businesses exist to earn revenues and profits, but it can take something else to help make them successful. Former Apple CEO Steve…
The Best Founders Aren’t Specialists, They’re Polymaths: Peter Thiel
One can imagine that being a successful founder requires putting razor-like focus on a particular problem until it’s solved, but one of the…
Why Netflix Offers A 4-Month Severance Package To Laid-off Employees
Many companies give a standard one-month severance to laid off employees, but streaming giant Netflix is substantially more generous. Netflix gives a minimum…
I Cringe When I See A Beautiful Startup Office: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Startups these days can have very swanky offices that can hold their own against offices of top multinationals, but they make Eric Schmidt…
Andrej Karpathy Explains Why “Ask An AI” Is More Like “Ask A Data Labeler”
Ever since models like ChatGPT burst into prominence a couple of years ago, some people have been putting much in store by what…
Ben Horowitz On How Senior Executives Should Be Hired To Maximize Leverage
Hiring is one of the hardest jobs for startup founders — the quality of early hires can make or break a company. But…
Consultants Like McKinsey Are A Corrupt Racket: Peter Thiel
Steve Jobs had a famously dim view of consultants, and it appears that some of the brightest thinkers in Silicon Valley still seem…
Successful Co-founding Relationships Are Like Successful Marriages: PayPal’s Max Levchin
There’s much has been written about how to find a co-founder, and how to manage co-founder relationships, but a prominent entrepreneur believes the…