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Auren Hoffman: It used to be that “who you know” — not “what you know” — held the most value. But in the last 15 years, it has become much more important to build something than to know people.

future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future

How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)

Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?

David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his t

ROBERT F. SMITH Founder and CEO, Vista Equity Partners; Philanthropist

David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004, Th

Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

Jason Child, a colleague of mine from my Arthur Andersen days (he’s now the CFO of Groupon), introduced me to Jason Kilar (who later became the founder and CEO of Hulu). They invited me to interview at Amazon.com

John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company

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Yash Mimani aka ahafisher and • 5 cards

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Max Levchin, my co-founder at PayPal, says that startups should make their early staff as personally similar as possible.