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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Decision
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Nov 07, 2020

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

Nov 07, 2020

If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

Commitment
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Nov 07, 2020

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

Natural
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Nov 07, 2020

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

Internet
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Nov 07, 2020

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Pressure
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Nov 07, 2020

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.

Nov 07, 2020

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

Company
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Nov 07, 2020

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

Management
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Nov 07, 2020

I try to help people with management stuff a lot.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

Nov 07, 2020

In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.

Communication
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Nov 07, 2020

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Nov 07, 2020

If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.

Nov 07, 2020

Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.

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