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Chris Faught
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Founder & CEO @neoncommerce | former @affirm @apple; mostly a collection of things to remember.
Katılım Nisan 2011
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"Steve Schwarzman defines eights as those who can follow marching orders, nines as those who can execute and strategize and tens as those can sense problems, design solutions, explore new directions and make it rain.
Eights and nines need not apply."
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag
Jeremy wrote one of the best job descriptions I've seen and has a great way of thinking about them: "Job descriptions are written for nobody to be read by nobody. What's so important in a job description is disqualifying who you don't want. The nice thing about a divisive statement is that when it resonates, it deeply resonates. The one that got the most reaction was 'you're an ideological minority at a top 10 school.' It's entirely open for interpretation. I had people select out. That's great, 'cause I don't want those people. There's some schools that are uncontroversially top 10, and so I get those people. But you can also just assert that your school is a top 10. I had a few people from schools that I would not say were anywhere close just assert that. I thought that was great."
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got asked at dinner last night what it takes to succeed as a founder
here's what it takes, in order of importance
how to win as a founder (without getting lucky) 🧵
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A man who is not on fire is nothing.
- Carl Jung
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4 thoughts on early-stage hiring:
1/ If an engineer is trying to pick between a pre Series-B company and a BigCo/BigLab --> stop talking to them immediately. They are clearly not ready for a startup.
2/ If someone isn't willing to take a 70% cash paycut (relative to BigCo/BigLab) --> stop talking to them immediately. They will be unhappy/stressed.
3/ You learn a lot about a candidate during the negotiation/closing process. Do not be afraid to walk away if you get new information.
4/ Startups have zero work-life balance. If you are not willing to put in the hours, you are not in the right headspace to grind.
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I’m an appellate court judge.
I’ve read thousands of briefs.
Here’s what no one told you about persuasion and how to win. Thread.
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One of the worst communication gaps is between people who care about precision in language and those who don’t
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In honor of 50 years of Apple, we're sharing - for the first time ever - Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer. #Apple50
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Services: The New Software
Sequoia on the next $1T opportunity map.
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"I want all A players around me. I want people whose relationship with me I value so much that if it was terminated, I would be lost." —Brad Jacobs
Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️@EricJorgenson
"Our most important consideration is recruiting the best people. The output of any company is the vector sum of the people within it." - @elonmusk
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@TimSweeneyEpic @markgurman This is a common occurrence. I've seen it many times now.
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sudarshan@ItzSuds
PLS HELP! Stripe asked one of my best friends (bootstrapped consumer company, $12m ARR in 9 mos) to move his in app billing from Apple & helped him with the whole migration. Apple terminated his app for circumventing payment rails. STRIPE GHOSTED HIM. Can anyone at Apple help?
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Apple is lowering the fees it collects from app developers for software and in-app purchases in China, the latest move to appease regulators cracking down on its digital offerings. Moving from 30% to 25% (15% to 12% for small business program). bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@rileybrown @TimSweeneyEpic @markgurman You can’t deprecate IAP if you’re going to offer web payments. Have to offer both.
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I’m in love with this sentence:
“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
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