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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
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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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One thing I think you can learn to do is be excellent at references. It doesn't work for hiring people right out of college or something because the reference context is going to be a little off, but I think without getting better at interviewing and assessing, if you just learn to extract the right information from ruthless referencing.
“One thing I think you can learn to do is be excellent at references. It doesn't work for hiring people right out of college or something because the reference context is going to be a little off, but I think without getting better at interviewing and assessing, if you just learn to extract the right information from ruthless referencing.”
- Speaker
- Keith Rabois
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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The most important lesson I learned when I was working at Square from my board was Vinod Khosla was on my board, and he said, "The team you build is the company you build.
“The most important lesson I learned when I was working at Square from my board was Vinod Khosla was on my board, and he said, "The team you build is the company you build.”
- Speaker
- Keith Rabois
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast