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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Matt Binder

@mattbinder

Samuel Spitz

@samuelspitz

“Many early-stage teams underestimate how many candidates they need to speak to to make one hire. In our data we also saw that only 13% of inbound applicants even make it to the first screen. You will either need a lot of inbound, or more likely, you will have to fill the funnel with sourced candidates and referrals.”—Benji Encz, CEO of Ashby

Lenny Rachitsky • How to interview product managers

Daniel Heinzelman

@danielheinzelman

It took only a couple of weeks of working for Sam before Caroline Ellison called her mother and sobbed into the phone that she’d just made the biggest mistake of her life. She’d first met Sam at Jane Street, in the summer before her senior year at Stanford, after he’d been assigned to teach her class of interns how to trade. “I was kind of, like, t

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

We’re moving into the era of creators as marketing channels. It feels like Facebook ads in 2012: the distribution is mis-priced and the attention has already shifted, but companies are too stuck in their ways to adapt.

David Perell

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Guillaume André

@guismo

One of the driving insights that led me to leave my job in 2021 at Reddit, because of my interest in the crypto industry, because of my fascination with decentralization, and because of my, you know, belief that the ability to own and control and create and have access to all of the data that we as individuals create online. I didn't believe that I