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Michael Ustinov
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On a never-ending search for interesting things
1. StorytellingMany companies in their early beginnings rally people behind anything but the actual product.But Clay rallied people behind a story: David Rockefeller (third generation of the Rockefeller family) gathered over 100,000 index cards without ver 200,000 meticulously crafted notes of every person he had met throughout his life. The purpos... See more
Ali Abouelatta • ⚫️ Clay
Marketplaces: "mitigate complexity in a mature creator platform."
Rex Woodbury • The Building Blocks of Tech
Branding
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
In a similar fractal fashion, the virtuous cycle is replicated throughout Amazon.com at macro and micro levels.
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
John Rossman didn’t “grow up” at Amazon but rather came from the outside and had to quickly get up to speed on Amazon’s “gladiator culture” and Jeff Bezos’s constant probing, questioning, and, yes, at times, screaming at his team.
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
projects are driven by democratized groups.1 Many find this notion of an alpha leader romantically appealing, believing that great design requires a tyrannical “Steve Jobs” at the helm to be successful.