The Ledger
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McCabe: Employees who complain about non-company issues are bad culture fits
“Hey, it turns out that the employees who would constantly complain about things not related to the company are actually not a good fit and not the type of people that we need to be really successful.”
McCabe: Only people who hate corporate life can build great companies
“The only people who can start and build great companies are people who hate corporate life. And the people who love corporate life can't build and start great companies.”
McCabe: Prescriptive advice is incompatible with building billion-dollar companies
“Telling someone else how to run their very unique business is incompatible with the idea that their goal is to build, you know, a billion dollar enterprise by virtue of the fact that it's different from everything else. Those two ideas are incompatible.”
McCabe: Building incrementally better products in mature categories leads nowhere
“Please don't take the egregious sacrifices to everything you value in your life by building an incrementally superior product in a big category. You will go All sorts of nowhere.”
McCabe: Founders often become unhappy slaves to their own companies
“Their manifesto or principle or values around all of business, or around the core of business, and this is me, I'm not quoting them, this is just my observation, and they're right in this, is that people start businesses to serve their interests and desires. T…”
McCabe: Inventing non-standard job titles makes recruiting experienced talent harder
“If you invent a new title like this, which might make sense for the world you're building, a lot of people, you want experienced people, that's what they said, who do this job. They're not going to find this role. It's not going to describe what they do. And I…”