Quotes by Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois

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

Management

Needs

Style

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.

Company

Scales

Want

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.

Everyday

Firsts

Problem

Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.

Giving

Ideas

People

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

Machines

Running

Want

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.

Office

Two

Venture Capitalists

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

Company

Idiot

Running

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.

Building

Irrational

People

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

Decision

People

Tools

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

Delegates

Mistake

People

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Accepting

Agendas

Anomalies

Arguing

Asks

Behaviour

Believe

Book

Break

Building

Challenges

Character

Company

Complexity

Customers

Dashboards

Decision

Delegates

Details

Done

Ebay

Editing

Editors

Effort

Employee

Engineers

Enough

Everyday

Example

Excuse

Feels

Firsts

Force

Giving

Goal

Guitar

Harder

Ideas

Idiot

Impact

Important

Important Things

Initiative

Ink

Irrational

Jobs

Keys

Long

Looks

Lows

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois

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

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.

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.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

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.

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

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.

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

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

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