Puri: Peter Thiel restricted PayPal employees to a single core priority
Shaan Puri · Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month · Mar 28, 2023 · at 52:14
Sean Puri, co-host of My First Million, discusses management tactics and extreme focus while talking to Sam Parr.
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“Peter Thiel has the same thing he used to do at running PayPal famously. It's like, was Peter Thiel a good manager? And people are like, no, like, managerial skills or like soft skills are not what Peter Thiel is known for, but he did one really effective tactic, which was Everybody in the company would have their one key thing that they're working on, their one mission that they have, and if you ever tried to talk to him about not your mission, he would simply get up and leave the room. He would be like, oh, you're talking to me about not the mission? Bye!”
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