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Red Rising
“So I love Sci-Fi, Red Rising was one of my favorite books. And then the Silo series.”
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Vlad Loktev
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Red Rising
“So I love Sci-Fi, Red Rising was one of my favorite books. And then the Silo series. Highly, highly recommend.”
book / recommends
Silo series
“So I love Sci-Fi, Red Rising was one of my favorite books. And then the Silo series. Highly, highly recommend.”
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01 / belief
Don't come in, because people usually when they prepare for a meeting, I've seen many PMs do this, and you prepare with, "Here is my view, and here are the bullets that support my view.
“Don't come in, because people usually when they prepare for a meeting, I've seen many PMs do this, and you prepare with, "Here is my view, and here are the bullets that support my view.”
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- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / belief
Everyone seems to be aligning around the point of view to be the voice that's poking. And this is like, "Nope, let me share why I think maybe we should go in a different direction.
“Everyone seems to be aligning around the point of view to be the voice that's poking. And this is like, "Nope, let me share why I think maybe we should go in a different direction.”
- Speaker
- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / belief
I think I remember doing a Q&A with the whole company on the Instant Book topic.
“I think I remember doing a Q&A with the whole company on the Instant Book topic.”
- Speaker
- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / belief
The worst thing I think you can do is just sit in a job where you're not being impactful, you're not working on the top priority and you're just wasting your life.
“The worst thing I think you can do is just sit in a job where you're not being impactful, you're not working on the top priority and you're just wasting your life.”
- Speaker
- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / belief
As an operator, I've loved taking bets on people who are maybe earlier in their career who have energy, who have drive, and who are deeply thoughtful and deeply resonant with the mission that we're working on. Because at the end of the day, strategy changes, orgs change, teams change, everything changes all the time, and the one constant I think is actually the mission.
“As an operator, I've loved taking bets on people who are maybe earlier in their career who have energy, who have drive, and who are deeply thoughtful and deeply resonant with the mission that we're working on. Because at the end of the day, strategy changes, orgs change, teams change, everything changes all the time, and the one constant I think is actually the mission.”
- Speaker
- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
06 / belief
I mean, you're going to probably hire fewer people that way, but you will hire the right people. So I think then you're going to actually have a team that you can rely on for years and years and years as things change.
“I mean, you're going to probably hire fewer people that way, but you will hire the right people. So I think then you're going to actually have a team that you can rely on for years and years and years as things change.”
- Speaker
- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
07 / belief
I mean, I think incentives come down to culture, and it's what you set as the fiber of your organization.
“I mean, I think incentives come down to culture, and it's what you set as the fiber of your organization.”
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- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
08 / belief
The reality is I think the way we operate was actually somewhere more towards the middle on a day-to-day basis.
“The reality is I think the way we operate was actually somewhere more towards the middle on a day-to-day basis.”
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- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
09 / belief
I would argue for us at Airbnb, the quality of what we were releasing kind of suffered because we were just push, push, push, ship, ship, ship, and people were shipping across the board.
“I would argue for us at Airbnb, the quality of what we were releasing kind of suffered because we were just push, push, push, ship, ship, ship, and people were shipping across the board.”
- Speaker
- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
10 / belief
" Here, people were like, it was a sense of this emotional proud moment when you were basically given the keys and somebody said, "Hey, we actually think you would be fantastic at helping us think about how to make sure every single new hire embodies these core values." I think that was so powerful.
“" Here, people were like, it was a sense of this emotional proud moment when you were basically given the keys and somebody said, "Hey, we actually think you would be fantastic at helping us think about how to make sure every single new hire embodies these core values." I think that was so powerful.”
- Speaker
- Vlad Loktev
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast