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Keith Rabois

25 statements across 5 episodes · 12 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 25, 2025 by Samir Vasavada · said 33 times in 11 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Molly O'Shea (23), Kaz Nejatian (3), Samir Vasavada (2), Delian Asparouhov (2), Michael Judd (1), Eric Crispin (1), Christian Garrett (1)

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2026 22 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode

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Everything said about Keith Rabois, oldest first

Jul 25, 2025 positive
Insight
Vasavada: Alpha comes from hiring fewer, high-agency, high-ownership people
“I think a real learning was the alpha was in hiring a small amount of people that were, that are high agency, that are high ownership, that could take on a lot, you know, as Keith or boy says your barrels you know, find a lot of key barrels and find the right …”
Samir Vasavada Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 5:11 How Vise Became a Unicorn With Just 40 Employees · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 15, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Rabois: Opendoor should cut headcount from 1,400 to 200–300 max
“There's 1400 employees. There should be like more like 200 or 300 max”
Keith Rabois Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 4:27 Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Rabois: Kaz Nejatian cut Shopify's G&A from 14% to 4%
“One of the things he did at Shopify when he got promoted to be COO was cut their GNA as a fraction of revenue from 14% to four percent, and I think they're on target next year to be at one percent.”
Keith Rabois Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 4:28 Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Rabois: Opendoor will operate as an in-person company
“Well, I'll leave that to the CEO, but the company will be in person.”
Keith Rabois Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 20:29 Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
What-if
Rabois: He and Eric Wu could have easily bought out Opendoor
“It would have been easy to buy out the company ourselves and just own the whole thing if we'd paid attention a month earlier which probably would have been a better thing to do, truthfully.”
Keith Rabois Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 5:50 Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 15, 2025
Insight
Rabois: A company's CEO determines 99% of its success or failure
“99% of everything that matters is the CEO. The most important lesson for me over the last 25 years is if you have the right CEO, things that people believe to be impossible, Or very possible, sometimes probable. If you have the wrong CEO, almost nothing else m…”
Keith Rabois Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 1:58 Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Rabois: Eight of his last twelve startup investments are in New York
“Eight of my 12 lost eight of the last 12 investments are actually in New York.”
Keith Rabois Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 21:07 Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 15, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabois: Opendoor's SG&A has been bloated and out of control since 2015
“And then the company at a kind of tactical level just has too much of a bloated GNA. It's always had too much of a GNA that was Way out of control since 2015.”
Keith Rabois Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 4:14 Keith Rabois on Opendoor ($OPEN) Activist Turnaround · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025
Disclosure
Rabois quit an eight-can daily Diet Coke habit cold turkey
“Literally, I read the study, stop cold turkey the next day, have not had a Diet Coke in eight years. Wow. Literally not a single one. I used to have eight to 10 a day.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 27:27 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025
Insight
Rabois: Exceptional talent means top 0.1% in one trait or rare combinations
“There's only, there's two formulations. One is you are in the top call one to 10 basis points on some specific trait. And that can, they can be very different. You can be the smartest person I've ever met. You can be the most tenacious person, persistent best …”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 6:47 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabois reread Andy Grove's 'High Output Management' yearly for 18 years
“High output management by Andy Grove is the business favorite. I, for the first. 18 years I was in technology. I reread it every single year and always found in my highlights learning new things.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 36:29 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Opinion
Rabois claims successful people ate a lot of ketchup as kids
“Well, I still believe that ketchup's really good for you when you're a kid. Yeah. People who are successful eating a lot of ketchup when they're young.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 25:37 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Rabois says he has started using ChatGPT to write a book
“I have started to play around with ChatGPT to write a book for me.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 13:18 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025
Disclosure
Rabois: I do not believe in ever taking days off for anything
“I basically don't believe in days off for anything.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 30:05 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Rabois: Finding one exceptional person reveals talent in their closest five friends
“So if you find one node, a person who's in node, the five people that that person spends the most time with, there's probably some pretty other talented people in that group.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 3:57 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 neutral
Insight
Adding employees without project leaders decreases productivity and increases frustration
“It's because you don't have any more barrels, you're just stacking ammunition behind the same number of barrels, so you're not going to get any more done, and you're just going to frustrate people.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 13:00 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rabois billed 363 hours during his final month as a lawyer
“I billed, like, 363 hours my last month as a lawyer.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 18:25 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Rabois says Kelly McGonigal's 'The Upside of Stress' is his favorite book
“Favorite book is called The Upside of Stress. And is written by a professor at Stanford named Kelly McDougall. And it really crystallized. So talking about conventional contrarian ideas, I used to believe stress is good for you.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 35:31 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Rabois: Having high energy is a choice and a teachable skill
“I think it's actually something you can teach yourself. Like it's an acquired taste. I think many things in life are that way. They're path dependent. You just decide to have energy.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 29:28 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025
Insight
Rabois: The most successful people aim to be unique, not the best
“You don't want to be the best in the world at what you do. You want to be the only one who does what you do. And so I think that's mostly people who are successful. They figure out how to frame themselves. So they're not just the best. They're the only.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 10:03 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 negative
Insight
Rabois: Talent identification must be done in person, limiting scalability
“I've found that you need to do it in person, which really reduces the scalability of it.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 2:54 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Rabois hired Square employees from his soccer team who later founded Faire
“Hired two, at least two people off my soccer team that worked at Square. They started a company that's a very good company called Fair.”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 3:31 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Rabois: Every successful startup is a cult with a non-consensus worldview
“Every successful company is a cult. And what a cult really means is you have a view about the world that's different than other normal people. And you're right to be successful. Like a cult doesn't have to be right, but the startup is a cult. That's right. And…”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 17:12 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Nejatian proposed to Keith Rabois taking Opendoor private together to fix it
“My wife's plan, literally, genuinely, honestly, was that we would, like, sell everything we owned, leverage ourselves as much as we could to take Opendoor private, so we could fix it. So I called Keith back in, I think, April, and he was, hey man, I'm thinking…”
Kaz Nejatian Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 5:58 Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
There Is No Secret PayPal Alumni Group Chat
“There's not a PayPal group chat. Not, not that I'm invited to either. So if he's not invited, I'm not invited either.”
Max Levchin Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 37:51 Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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