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“Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.”

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Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois is an experienced executive in the technology industry, having held several leadership roles since the 1990s. He was a key figure at PayPal and has played significant roles in other Silicon Valley startups. more

“Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.”

People Needs Can Do Numbers Company Unique Great People Barrels Velocity Ammunition

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“Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.”

People Way Giving May Ideas Difficult Company Week Definitions Dinner Conception Equity Barrels Cuz Irreplaceable Shipping

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“What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.”

Want Responsibility Break Employee Scope

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“If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.”

People Ifs Giving Believe Persons Helping Opportunity Individual Reports Employee Consistently Desks Barrels

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“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.”

People Knows Problem Difficult Company Know How Impact Solve Difficult Problems

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“You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.”

People Needs

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“Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.”

People Decision Levels Tools Fidelity

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“The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.”

Should Firsts Founders Constructs Dashboards

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“You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.”

Needs Values Company Propositions Simplify Metrics

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“The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.”

Use Keys Everyday Employee Fractions Metrics Dashboards

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