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Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it. — Keith Rabois

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day. — Keith Rabois

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job. — Keith Rabois

You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same. — Keith Rabois

If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice. — Keith Rabois

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday. — Keith Rabois

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard. — Keith Rabois

The next thing you do is allocate resources. — Keith Rabois

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done. — Keith Rabois

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives. — Keith Rabois

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour. — Keith Rabois

Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. — Keith Rabois

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate. — Keith Rabois

Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example. — Keith Rabois

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first. — Keith Rabois

I think you must have your own office. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. — Keith Rabois

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things. — Keith Rabois

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder. — Keith Rabois

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager. — Keith Rabois

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better. — Keith Rabois

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee. — Keith Rabois

The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company. — Keith Rabois

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice. — Keith Rabois

Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself. — Keith Rabois

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user. — Keith Rabois

Don't accept the excuse of complexity. — Keith Rabois

Treat customer support as a product. — Keith Rabois

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team. — Keith Rabois

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn. — Keith Rabois

I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product — Keith Rabois

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks. — Keith Rabois

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds — Keith Rabois

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people. — Keith Rabois

I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in. — Keith Rabois

What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks. — Keith Rabois

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will. — Keith Rabois

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform. — Keith Rabois

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in. — Keith Rabois

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try. — Keith Rabois

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions. — Keith Rabois

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting. — Keith Rabois