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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mentor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
- Emphasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
- Executing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020