How to hire and excute
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1: use your instict, what you want, what you're using.
2: Co-founders:
- the No.1 broken reason
my fault
- good co-founders>solo found>bad co-founders
- 2 or 3 worked the best, 5 would be bad.
- pre-negotiation on Equity split
- what the founders do is the culture
3: Hire People
- Are they smart?
- Do they get things done?
- Do I want to spent a lot of time around them?
- Animal description: you need be able to describe your people as one animal.
- M.Z's comments: he would hire people that a: he would spent time to social with them; b: he would be comfortable reporting to.
- after hire the best, keep them around: make employees feel happy and valued
- reputation goes to team, while you take the responsibility.
- 1n1 with employees matters.
4: Fire fast
- creating the office politics
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5: CEO 5 jobs: what the founders do makes the culture
- vision
- money
- Evangelize
- hire and manage
- make the company except
Can you get things done?
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focus:
- where you spend your money and time
- what's are the most important 2 or 3 things.
- say no a lot
- set overarching goals, reapeat them
- communicate
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Intensity
everytime you talk them them ,they get new things done.
they show up a lot
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Momentum: keep growing, or die
- setting an operation rhythm:
- shipping product
- launching new product
- reviewing/reporting metrict, milestone
- setting an operation rhythm:
don't spend more money than you have.