B-players

“Not every role needs that a plus player. Sometimes it's actually the opposite, right? If you get an a plus player and they're in a role, they're not going to be super happy. They want to move quickly. You can have attrition risk or they want new responsibiliti…”

“Having people who are Perfectly willing to do good work day in and day out is not the worst thing in the world. There's plenty of things that A players will turn their notes from because it's just not that challenging. It's not accelerating them out of the A p…”

“The point is, you can filter out C players. You can definitely filter out D players. Differentiation between B and A is what happens once you've brought them in.”

“The Steve Jobs quote, A players, higher A players, B players, higher C players, is profoundly true. There should be an asterisk explaining why this is true, and the reason for it is fear.”

“I think saying that you're gonna hire B players because you've gotten large enough is, is laziness and an excuse. And it, it's a lack of creativity in your business model and how you're going, the algorithm of how you're going to scale.”