Stoa
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Stoa
@StoaHQ
India’s top alternative to the traditional MBA, active between ‘20 - ‘24.
India Katılım Eylül 2020
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Laszlo Bock, Former SVP of People Operations at Google, "It is important that we make work better, and it is too easy to inadvertently make it worse using technology." A reminder of the responsibility that comes with technological solutions in HR.
More: metisstrategy.com/interview/lasz…
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“As leaders, we have to have the courage to enter the danger with people." from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
Find this and more underrated gems here youtube.com/watch?v=EQyLMv…
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The concept of Amazon’s two-pizza teams is straightforward: no team should be big enough that it would take more than two pizzas to feed them. Ideally, this is a team of less than 10 people
More here: aws.amazon.com/executive-insi…
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A great heuristic for deciding how to market and avoiding a dead zone price point. From Zero to One by @peterthiel
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"The Trap that people fall into is thinking that the answer to their problems is elsewhere."
@ShaanVP on the importance of focus and intensity for founders.
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"There's a law of large numbers in 1 to N, run the experiment many times and sort of see how things work. But 0 to 1? Every sort of event in the history of progress, technology or science has something singular and non-repeatable about it." >>@peterthiel
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And finally, from Mr. "I was happy to be a human task reminder" @chrishlad, a sales manifesto chris-hlad.ck.page/posts/100m-in-…
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From the other side of the table, @gradypb with all the unsexy details of @sequoia's $52M investment in @ServiceNow x.com/gradypb/status…
Pat Grady@gradypb
1/ my partners @sequoia like to tell a story about how we had this brilliant SaaS thesis that led us to Fred Luddy, founder of @ServiceNow... but the truth is that we pinged him because it was a company, and my job was to find companies. here is the actual CRM record, starting in 2008: lmwa [“left message with assistant”, back when cold calls actually involved picking up the phone] lmwa emailed lmwa emailed lvm [“left voice mail”] lvm lvm emailed emailed emailed first response!!!
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First up is @bosmeny drilling into what it really took to close their 2nd ever deal @clever youtu.be/SHAh6WKBgiE?si…
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More people more problems. @shreyas on a vicious, vicious circle :)
Shreyas Doshi@shreyas
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly. A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
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Tiago Forte (@fortelabs): "At every stage, I’ve had to “fire” myself from each job and give it to someone else"
His 0 to 1 (or rather 1 to 12) journey of building out Forte Labs.
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Brian Chesky on why Airbnb took months to hire their first employee youtu.be/RfWgVWGEuGE?si…
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