Why Elon Musk Believes The Best Products In The World Shouldn’t Even Need A Logo
Most first-time entrepreneurs agonize over how to choose their product’s branding and logos, but if they make a sufficiently good product, all that…
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Marc Andreessen Explains The Onion Theory Of Risk In Startup Investing
Managing startup investments is essentially managing risk, and Marc Andreessen has an interesting theory on how to model it. Marc Andreessen — co-founder…
Google Co-founder Larry Page On Why It’s Often Easier To Have Aggressive Goals
Goal-setting might be more counter-intuitive than it first appears. In the early years of Google, co-founder Larry Page gave a talk on leadership…
Hiring Isn’t Just Filling A Slot, It’s Creating Branches Of A Tree: Stripe Co-Founder John Collison
Hiring at a startup, especially in the early stages, is a lot more consequential than it could initially appear. John Collison, the co-founder…
Steve Jobs On How Products Suffer When Sales & Marketing Teams Take Over Companies
Sales and marketing are vital functions for most businesses, but one of the greatest CEOs of all time believed that they should be…
I’ve Never Met Someone Really Successful Who Had A Great Social Life At 20: Palantir CEO Alex Karp
Greatness is always possible, but it comes at a price. That blunt observation comes from Alex Karp, the eccentric, ponytail-sporting CEO of Palantir…
Ben Horowitz Explains The Difference Between Engineers And Salespeople
There’s always some tension between the engineering and sales verticals in big companies, and it may come down to fundamental differences in how…
If You Don’t Love What You’re Doing, You’re Going To Fail: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was, by all accounts, an uncompromising CEO and a hard taskmaster, but he wouldn’t have been as successful as he was…
How Elon Musk Uses The Power Of Saying ‘No’ To Build His Many Businesses
Elon Musk seems to say ‘yes’ to building any company that would help the overall cause of humanity, but his real superpower might…