Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund and is one of the most respected minds in Silicon Valley. Keith is also a co-founder and CEO of OpenStore. He previously was part of the PayPal mafia, served as the COO of Square, and co-founded real estate company OpenDoor. Keith also has invested in many industry defining businesses including Yelp, Linkedin, and hundreds of others.

In this conversation, we discuss building tech companies, great hiring questions, identifying the best founders, Miami, Afghanistan, China, OpenStore, Square, Founders Fund, and the state of the media.

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