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Lenny Rachitsky: evaluation

16 Feb 2025 Lenny's Podcast A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)

“The core part of your advice on crisis, it's always the founders fault if things don't work out.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky
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evaluation
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16 Feb 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Always keep on looking for ways to make it work. Never give up is the most important behavior of successful CEOs of startup. The second one, by the way, is making decisions with conviction. If you don't make them with conviction, then the team is not going to follow. If the team is not going to follow, then you are not going to be successful. The core part of your advice on crisis, it's always the founders fault if things don't work out. At the end of the day, you cannot rely on someone else, you have only one company, you need to make sure that this company is successful. When you assume responsibility, you're basically saying, "You know what, I control my own destiny."…

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