Why Founders Should Build an Opinionated Culture
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Why Founders Should Build an Opinionated Culture
Building a great culture means adapting it to circumstances. And that often means bringing in outside leadership from the culture you need to penetrate or master.
Ben Horowitz • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Is the CEO building a world-class team?
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
We are in an age of noise.
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See more
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See more
Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
Don’t be a product visionary—or, worse, a product dictator. Your company shouldn’t be a cult of personality, building exclusively what you want on the timelines you decide. WeWork is one example of how that path leads to certain doom. Among the numerous excesses, questionable decision making, and lavish capital infusions based on little evidence th... See more
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
One thing I do look back on fondly was how incredibly focused we were. Resources and time were so tight that you could feel the weight of all the things you weren’t working on. You had real conviction that the thing you were doing was the most important thing.
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the co... See more
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the co... See more
Andrew Bosworth • Focus
"The culture of a company should be like 80 or 90% just the personality of the founder... otherwise, there's no progress; inertia dominates."
Who should be leading these efforts and making key decisions?
Dan Hockenmaier • Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups
The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world—and that will have to start with developing superior taste.