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Marc Lore: Founders Must Invest Enough Personal Capital to Feel Life-or-Death Pressure
“I wouldn't recommend putting your life savings in. But I would recommend putting enough money in so that you feel like it's life or death, because that's the only way to get into what I call the sixth gear.”
Marc Lore: Founders Cannot Successfully Manage HR on the Side
“If you think that, or the CEO or the founder of a company thinks that they can found the company, do the capital, do the vision, do all the parts of the business, and on the side with their pinky, do like the chief people stuff. That's not gonna work. You're n…”
Marc Lore: Operating at maximum intensity on five hours of sleep fails
“If you want, in sixth gear, this idea of being in sixth gear and sleeping five hours a night, that doesn't work. You can't, you don't have enough energy to be in sixth gear for the remaining hours in the day.”
Marc Lore: Childhood-driven motivation cannot be replicated but can become an asset
“You can't tell somebody that doesn't have this unhealthy childhood to find that motivation. It's something that's unexplainable, but I think it's really healthy when it starts, and I think with therapy and time, I think it can morph into something that's healt…”
Marc Lore: Half-trusting people yields all downside and no upside
“I've found, and I'm very trusting, when you openly trust someone, really trust them, like where they can burn you, like put yourself in a place where they could burn you. They rarely do. Occasionally you might get burned, and that's part of one of the conseque…”
Marc Lore argues default trust yields high upside with only 2% failure rate
“I found that actually it is more like one 50. Like it's rare that you will get burned and you'll get better at associating with people that are less likely to burn you. But the upside is tremendous. Like I said, if you go halfway on trusting or three quarters,…”
Marc Lore: Superstars make demonstrable jumps in level when changing companies
“When they leave the company that they're at, Superstars make demonstrable jumps in either title, level, type of company, and it's very clear.”
Marc Lore: Never take risks on core values, only with capital
“I don't think you take risk on values. So I think you need to be really grounded, know what your values are, what your core values, and never deviate, and even live them when they're hard. I think that Sometimes it's hard, but that means you're living your val…”
Marc Lore: Hiring top market talent guarantees strategic acquisition interest
“I find if you've got the very best people in the world in a certain segment of the market, it's always going to be really valuable and interesting to a strategic.”
Lore: Most founders cannot state a clear 10-year vision in three sentences
“I don't think people spend enough time on the vision. They'll say, like, if you ask somebody, what is your vision? 10 to 15 years, where do you want to be? It's rare that somebody will be able to, like, recite a, like, really tight three to five sentences of e…”