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Vlad Loktev: belief

1 Sept 2024 Lenny's Podcast Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product)

“I mean, I think incentives come down to culture, and it's what you set as the fiber of your organization.”

— Vlad Loktev

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Vlad Loktev
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belief
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1 Sept 2024
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Lenny's Podcast

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…How do you think about incentives and goals and how that impacts all that stuff? Because there's people and then there's like, "Here's your goal, here's how you're measured," and that's what they're going to work on in this thought. I mean, I think incentives come down to culture, and it's what you set as the fiber of your organization. So again, I think you can align incentives. And people will be excited to make impact on the organization regardless of how an organization is actually organized. That's a really interesting takeaway, because I think a lot of people think about, "If we just org this and put this person here and create business units, things are going to start moving." And you're not saying don't think about that and don't necessarily do that, but you're probably putting too much weight on that actually solving your problems.…

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