app / uses
Square
“I talked to my YC lecturer in 2014 about how to operate. They can be as simple as the now somewhat famous in technology smoothie test, which is, we used to have engineers work pretty hard at Square and pretty late.”
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Keith Rabois
Published podcast speaker
- Claims
- 21
- Episodes
- 1
- Shows
- 1
- Named items
- 2
Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
book / recommends
The Upside of Stress
“So the number one one is called The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal, Professor at Stanford. And basically it argues in an incredibly compelling way that if you want to be happy, healthy, or wealthy, you need more stress in your life, not less. So it's magic. The evidence she marshals is effectively uncritiquable at the outcome level, at the biochemical level. It is transformative to people to read this book, so I highly recommend it.”
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What Keith said.
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01 / evaluation
After years of sitting through these conversations at dinner with other CEOs or COOs, I realized that the fundamental driver of this is that the number of people that can independently drive an initiative from beginning, from inception to success is very limited within any company.
“After years of sitting through these conversations at dinner with other CEOs or COOs, I realized that the fundamental driver of this is that the number of people that can independently drive an initiative from beginning, from inception to success is very limited within any company.”
- Speaker
- Keith Rabois
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / evaluation
Because again, if they're not training on the right data, it's dangerous to say you're simulating humans.
“Because again, if they're not training on the right data, it's dangerous to say you're simulating humans.”
- Speaker
- Keith Rabois
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / evaluation
Sometimes it's controversial to say this, but one of the reasons why the net impact of my higher undiscovered talent is you wind up skewing younger. It's not because you need young people, it's that younger people have, by definition, less data.
“Sometimes it's controversial to say this, but one of the reasons why the net impact of my higher undiscovered talent is you wind up skewing younger. It's not because you need young people, it's that younger people have, by definition, less data.”
- Speaker
- Keith Rabois
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast