Occupation: Businessman Birth: June 13, 1966
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your compa….
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born..
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire..
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually.
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge..
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensi….
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know..
You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one..
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition..
The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevaili….
A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model..
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time..
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity..
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence..
Leadership is hard to train on..
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it..
When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view,….
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying so….
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless..
I believe in strength over lack of weakness..
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational..