Keith Rabois: recommendation

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…Any other questions you find really helpful in extracting the right information? When I interview candidates for senior people in leadership positions, I always ask them, look at whatever company they're at and say, "If you were CEO, what would you have done differently?" And you get a feel for their strategic mindset of can they drive value creation? Because almost by definition, they've come from a company that's had some traction success, so can they edit? So in your case, I would've asked you, "If you were CEO of Airbnb, what would you have done differently?" And you learn a lot from that question. On references specifically, I think a general arc that's pretty good is asking the person, what would lead to this person being most successful? And if something were not to work out, what would be the primary root cause that you can identify if something going wrong? I think generally probing on those two arcs leads to a lot of insight. And that first question is for the candidate or is that in the reference?…

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