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Rabois: Google's 20% time policy is catastrophic for non-monopoly startups
“If you have a monopoly, for example, Google has this 20%, you know, side project bullshit where they used to. If you have a monopoly business with 99% gross margins or 90% margins, maybe letting your employees waste time once in a while maybe isn't catastrophi…”
Keith Rabois advises VCs against simultaneously acting as company founders
“So there are real, real trade-offs to company building. I would not recommend that.”
Rabois: I was too passive in setting OpenStore's culture my first year
“I was a little too, I was a lot too passive in letting the culture formulate in the first year, and I really have struggled to fix that.”
Rabois: Taking eight years off operating caused severe executive skill atrophy
“Like I took eight years between square and taking over, you know, CEO of open store. It's like muscle atrophy, you know, kind of going with the same metaphor. And it took me the first year at least to get back to be decent as a CEO.”