As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems.… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
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… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because a cult… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
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… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard. — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
