What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Keith credits his success to the basics: Early-morning exercise, proper sleep, and reading for ~1 hour a day
• If you’re going to succeed as a startup, you need to be able to find and hire undiscovered talent
• “If you’re going to attract people with extremely high potential, the first thing you have to do is let them thrive. You have to give them the degrees of freedom to do both what they can do very well, and to some extent, allow them to make mistakes.” – Keith Rabois
  • “If you try to constrain really talented people, you’re only going to create a mirror of yourself with your same strengths and weaknesses. You HAVE to let people do stuff that you disagree with. You can’t tell how good they are if they’re just replicating what you’d have them do.”
• If you’re tenacious (relentlessly resourceful), smart, and a magnet for talent, your odds of achieving success are greatly magnified
• “To be successful in an efficient market, you need to figure out what your comparative advantage is and magnify it” – Keith Rabois

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Keith Rabois is a Silicon Valley legend known for discovering and cultivating talent that has gone on to create companies such as YouTube, Lyft, Airbnb, Quora and many more.

Keith is a general partner at Founders Fund and also founded Open-door which transforms the process of buying and selling a home. Keith has a unique and unparalleled track record as an entrepreneur, executive and investor.

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn, and as Chief Operating Officer of Square.

On this episode Keith discusses working with greats such as Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, finding undiscovered talent and the mental frameworks he uses!

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